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Announcing Orca v2.23.92

From:  Willie Walker <William.Walker-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Announcing Orca v2.23.92
Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:21:30 -0400
Message-ID:  <48C55F1A.4000905@sun.com>
Cc:  Willie Walker <William.Walker-AT-Sun.COM>

Wow!  This one came up fast after the last one.  Many many thanks to 
Joanmarie Diggs for burning the midnight oil on this release.  She went 
way above and beyond the call of duty.  Joanie - you are AWESOME!

===============
* 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 v2.23.92 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.92 development 
release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME 
v2.23.92, 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 v2.23.92?
===================================

Good stuff.  :-)

2.23.92 - 08-Sep-2008

General:

* Partial fix for bug #527022 - Linked text should be "underlined" in
   braille in Firefox.  The complexity of this space, however, has
   caused us to table the braille underlining of links until the 2.26
   release of GNOME.

* Fix for bug #550249 - configure doesn't use find bonobo python

Yelp:

* Much work toward the fix for bug #356041 - GNOME Help (yelp) is
   inaccessible. Please note that access to Yelp is a work in
   progress: on our end, and on the Yelp end, and may also require
   the Mozilla guys to fix something on their end. As of today, in
   order for the yelp script to work, you will need to build yelp --
   after applying the patch attached to bug #545162. Many, many,
   many thanks to Ginn Chen for that patch and for getting to the
   bottom of a rather odd accesibility hierarchy.

StarOffice/OpenOffice:

* Fix for bug #515923 - 'Area' labels of Calc Headers/Footers dialog
   not always announced.

* Fix for for bug #550137 - Presentation of table content in OOo
   Writer is largely hosed and we're double-speaking paragraphs in OOo
   Writer docs.

* Fix for bug #551077 - Traceback and loss of speech in OOo
   Writer docs with both links and multbyte characters on the
   same line

* Fix for bug #551159 - Orca says "link" when it shouldn't and
   sometimes fails to say it when it should in OOo Writer documents.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug #541605 - updateBraille() can take an unreasonable
   amount of time with certain pages in Firefox 3.

* Fix for bug #550873 - Some live region text updates are not
   presented

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

     en_GB   English/British      David Lodge
     hi      Hindi                Rajesh Ranjan
     ja      Japanese             Takeshi Aihana
     mai     Maithili             Sangeeta Kumari
     pl      Polish               Piotr Leszczy?ski
     pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
     sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
     ta      Tamil                Tirumurthi Vasudevan
     tr      Turkish              Baris Cicek

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

You can obtain Orca v2.23.92 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.92....
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.92....

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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