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Announcing Orca v2.23.4

From:  Willie Walker <William.Walker-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Announcing Orca v2.23.4
Date:  Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:29:06 -0400
Message-ID:  <4856A2E2.9000106@sun.com>

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* What is Orca?
===============

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that
provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca development
has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office
via continued engagement with its end users and generous contributions
from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members.

The Orca v2.23.4 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.4 development 
release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME 
v2.23.4, including atk and gail.

You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.23.4?
==================================

Lots!  In addition, anything in the list below that begins with a '+' is 
in both the gnome-2-22 branch and trunk (this release).

2.23.4 - 16-Jun-2008

General:

* Fix for bug #397306 - Orca's default synthesis engine choice should
   take language into account.

* Fix for bug #464194 - Refactor keybindings to always care about
   Control/Shift/Alt/Orca modifiers.

+ Refix for bug #487585 - Orca Usage message should be localized.  Do
   not mark the command line options for translation.

* Fix for bug #517532 - change dict.has_key() usage to set operator
   'in'.

* Fix for bug #529655 - After inputting an incorrect password on the
   screensaver, orca can't speak the whole dialog.

* Fix for bug #530368 - Only move focus if the event is for the
   focused/active window.

Java:

+ Fix for bug #435585 - Java ControlPanel GIVING UP AFTER 5 TRIES.

OOo:

* Fix for bug #521450 - Orca should read the next/previous paragraph
   by a keystroke.

* Fix for bug #537851 - Moving cursor with mouse in oowriter causes
   traceback.

Thunderbird:

* Fix for bug #507922 - Include page tab name in braille context for
   Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #535192 - Misspelled word and suggestion not spoken in
   Thunderbird spell check.

* Fix for bug #537425 - Orca should provide context for misspelled
   words in Thunderbird spell check.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug #531806 - Wrapped item lists don't give proper braille
   in Gecko.

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

     ar      Arabic               Djihed Afifi
     bg      Bulgarian            Alexander Shopov
     es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                  Jorge Gonzalez
     nb      Norwegian Bokmål     Kjartan Maraas
     oc      Occitan              Yannig Marchegay
     vi      Vietnamese           Clytie Siddall

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* Where can I get it ?
======================

You can obtain Orca v2.23.4 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.4.t...
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.4.t...

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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