Announcing Orca v2.27.3

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* What is Orca?
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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.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.27.3?
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2.27.3 - 15-Jun-2009

General:

* We no longer manually update the ChangeLog each time we commit a
   change.  Instead, the ChangeLog will be automatically generated from
   the git logs when we create a new release.  If you pull from git,
   you can use 'git log' for a detailed list of changes.

* Much work on bgo#570658 - Refactor the speech and braille
   generators.  This represents a HUGE REFACTOR for Orca.  The speech
   generators have been completely rewritten to use formatting strings,
   and they are now used by the focus tracking and where am I code.
   This has simplified the code base a lot, increased performance in
   some areas, and has fixed a number of latent bugs.  It also enables
   finer granularity for switching voices and helps set us up for
   incorporating audio cues.  Please help us by testing with the latest
   code and by reporting issues and suggestions at orca-list@gnome.org.

* Fix for bgo#583274 - portability for orca script (Thomas Klausner)

* Fix for bgo#585017 - Orca should speak the toggled state of flat
   review mode

* Fix for bgo#585792 - i18n strings should use parameterized forms

OpenOffice:

* Significant progress on bgo#574720 - Table Navigation Keys for
   OpenOffice Writer. Structural navigation can be enabled/disabled in
   OOo with Orca+Z. It is disabled by default in OOo because, unlike in
   Gecko, odds are that you'll want to type. :-) Mind you right now we
   don't have structural navigation by headings, etc. in Writer. But
   one day we will. Alt + the arrows move by cell, Alt + Home/End move
   to the beginning/ending of the table respectively.

* Fix for bug #583414 - Orca should announce when is at last cell on
   a table in OOo.

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

   See also the overall translation status:
   http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca

     es       Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
     sv	     Swedish              Daniel Nylander
     ta       Tamil                drtvasudevan

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.27.3 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.3.t...
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.3.t...

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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