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.

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 v2.18.0, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step.



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* What's changed for Orca v2.18.1?
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This is a translation release with no other code changes.

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

ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i

Casamaj=F3
da Danish Peter Bach
de German Jochen Skulj
dz Dzongkha Pema Geyleg
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Mart=EDnez
gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel
nb Norwegian Bokm=E5l Kjartan Maraas and Sigurd Gartmann
tr Turkish Deniz Kocak and Baris Cicek

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.18.1 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.1.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team