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 sponsored by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office and progresses via continued engagement with end users and contributions from wonderful community members.

Come join us -- help the community grow. You can 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. We're making steady progress on this front, both in Orca and with the Firefox team. We're getting there step by step, and we're receiving positive comments from people who are having good success with where we are today. We'll keep going -- join us on the Orca list and share your comments, suggestions, and questions.



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* What's changed for Orca v2.19.3?
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Lots! We constantly listen to what our users are saying and we're still working hard and fast. For those who have not joined yet, please join us on the Orca mailing list and we'll listen to you, too. If you don't watch out, we might also make you a team member.

Orca v2.19.3 - 04-Jun-2007

General Orca:

* Make checkbox and radio button indicator strings customizable (thanks Mario Lang!)

* Present checkbox and radio button indicators before label/name in braille (thanks Mario Lang!)

* Fix for bug 345399 - Key echo missing alpha numeric and punctuation keys

* Fix for bug 349394 to make Speech Dispatcher Factory work better with Orca GUI preferences (thanks Tomas Cerha!)

* Fix for bug 376015 - [a11y] time-admin time servers table is not accessible

* Fix for bug 412837 - Need a single number to summarize test code coverage

* Fix for bug 434600 - cursor routing keys cannot be used to position
caret at end of line

* Fix for bug 435226 - Where-am-I doesn't correctly handle multiple selected paragraphs in OOo Writer and Evolution

* Fix for bug 439155 - Flat review is broken in gcalctool

* Fix for bug 439487 - Combobox role not shown in braille in 'brief' verbosity mode

* Fix for bug 439509 - Run Application Dialog prints entered text twice in braille (thanks Mario Lang!)

* Fix for bug 440592 - Orca doesn't speak gcalctool's status bar correctly

* Fix for bug 440294 - Voice Properties in Speech Dispatcher backend (thanks Tomas Cerha!)

* Fix for bug 441640 - Rename processCursorKey to processRoutingKey (thanks Mario Lang!)

* Fix for bug 441673 - Define InputEventHandler.__eq__ (thanks Mario Lang!)

* Fix for bug 441723 - Orca should not speak "double prime" for the number 3

* Fix for bug 443012 - atspi.py:_onParentChanged upsets atspi.py:_cache in a bad way

Firefox:

* Fix for bug 407941 - Infer labels for objects in HTML content

* Fix for bug 414657 - Linked headings should be announced as both heading and link

* Fix for bug 420540 - Firefox keyboard control wish list. Q/Shift+Q can now be used to navigate among blockquotes.

* Fix for bug 423435 - Orca is too chatty when loading a page in Firefox

* Fix for Bug 433655 - Orca's structural navigation should wrap at the end of a page

* Fix for bug 437753 - Orca should speak and braille the current locus of focus after a page is loaded in Firefox and then start reading the page

* Fix for bug 437986 - Orca should not first speak page and frame title when opening a menu in firefox

* Fix for bug 439286 - Gecko.py's find{Next,Previous}Object fails when object is document_frame.

* Fix for bug 440079 - Orca cannot arrow past certain combo boxes in Firefox

* Fix for bug 440529 - Orca bounces out of Firefox Help Contents tree and into the document frame

* Fix for bug 441476 - Orca should attempt to detect erroneously-marked list labels in Firefox

* Fix for bug 441484 - Need to adjust Firefox form field navigation to accommodate Firefox changes.

* Fix for bug 441610 - Orca should identify bogus/redundant checkbox labels in Firefox.

* Fix for bug 442083 - Orca skips over empty entries with Up/Down Arrow in Firefox

* Fix for bug 442691 - Form field structural navigation is slow to and in large lists

* Fix for bug 443067 - sayAll by sentence skips content that is in HTML tables in Firefox

* Fix for bug 443337 - Orca should not use the alt text if it is empty to infer a link name

* Fix for bug 443650 - Orca "loops" on certain pages in Firefox

OpenOffice:

* Work on bug 435199 - Orca is bloating the swap partition, so the system is no more usable after a short time (improvements made to OpenOffice script)

* Additional fix for bug 435201 - Orca is too chatty when navigating by paragraph in OOo Writer

* Fix for bug 435226 - Where-am-I doesn't correctly handle multiple selected paragraphs in OOo Writer and Evolution

* Fix for bug 435852 - Orca and OpenOffice Calc have a memory lovefest
Java platform:

* Fix for bug 435825 - Non-ORBit object typecodes ignored when instantiating stubs. NOTE: this was a pyorbit fix from Peter Parente that had a major impact on a number of bugs we were running into with the Java platform. Thanks so much, Peter Parente!

* Fix for bug 436674 - flat-review only visits right-most tree nodes in SwingSet2 JTree demo

* Fix for bug 437049 - Orca does not speak Java Control Panel spinbox changes

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

de German Jochen Skulj
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
en_GB English/British David Lodge

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.19.3 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.3.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.3.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team