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 contributions from wonderful community members.
You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.
The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases, but should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases.
NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.17.91, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0.
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* What's changed for Orca v2.17.91?
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* Fix for bug 385949: Better handling of comboboxes in Firefox 3.0. (Thanks for the fix, Joanie!)
* Work on bug 363830: announce when bold, underline, italics, and the various alignment toggle buttons change state in OpenOffice. (Thanks for the fix, Joanie!)
* Fix for bug 397787: Orca now handles if OpenOffice recovery mode better.
* Fix for bug 405541: provide better handle brailling of message summaries in Thunderbird message summary list.
* Fix for bugs 403767 and 405562: provide better support for autocompletion components in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug 398531: handle the speech preferences tab page better.
* Fix for bug 380050: Orca windows are now focused after user presses "Quit" or "Preferences" button in Orca Preferences window. (Thanks for testing, Joanie!)
* Work on bug 400763: much improvement to the responsiveness after starting an update from the update manager.
* Fix for bugs 400766 and 348464: better handling of autocomplete entries in GTK widgets as used by the "Run..." dialog and Evolution.
* Continued work on Gecko.py script for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step, and it requires work both inside Firefox 3.0 and inside Orca.
* Updated to support latest BrlAPI. Orca should now work various versions of BrlTTY and BrlAPI.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi and Khaled Hosny
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
=F3
en_GB English/British David Lodge
fr French St=E9phane Raimbault, Robert-Andr=E9 Mauch
in
and Jonathan Ernst
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian Bokm=E5l Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Supranee Thirawatthanasuk and
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.17.91 in source code form at the following:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.91.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.91.tar.bz2
Enjoy!
The Orca Team
You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.
The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases, but should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases.
NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.17.91, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0.
===================================
* What's changed for Orca v2.17.91?
===================================
* Fix for bug 385949: Better handling of comboboxes in Firefox 3.0. (Thanks for the fix, Joanie!)
* Work on bug 363830: announce when bold, underline, italics, and the various alignment toggle buttons change state in OpenOffice. (Thanks for the fix, Joanie!)
* Fix for bug 397787: Orca now handles if OpenOffice recovery mode better.
* Fix for bug 405541: provide better handle brailling of message summaries in Thunderbird message summary list.
* Fix for bugs 403767 and 405562: provide better support for autocompletion components in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug 398531: handle the speech preferences tab page better.
* Fix for bug 380050: Orca windows are now focused after user presses "Quit" or "Preferences" button in Orca Preferences window. (Thanks for testing, Joanie!)
* Work on bug 400763: much improvement to the responsiveness after starting an update from the update manager.
* Fix for bugs 400766 and 348464: better handling of autocomplete entries in GTK widgets as used by the "Run..." dialog and Evolution.
* Continued work on Gecko.py script for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step, and it requires work both inside Firefox 3.0 and inside Orca.
* Updated to support latest BrlAPI. Orca should now work various versions of BrlTTY and BrlAPI.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi and Khaled Hosny
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
=F3
en_GB English/British David Lodge
fr French St=E9phane Raimbault, Robert-Andr=E9 Mauch
in
and Jonathan Ernst
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian Bokm=E5l Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Supranee Thirawatthanasuk and
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
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* Where can I get it?
=====================
You can obtain Orca v2.17.91 in source code form at the following:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.91.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.91.tar.bz2
Enjoy!
The Orca Team
