is this going to be implimented in the latest unbuntu coming out in a few weeks? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: Announcing Orca v2.17.0
> =============== > * 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 has been > been developed by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program > Office via continued engagement with its end users. In fact, the user > interface designer for Orca is also a user. > > Now that Orca is part of the GNOME Desktop, we've decided to adopt the > GNOME versioning scheme to make it easier to correlate Orca releases > with GNOME releases. As such the Orca 2.17.x series are designated for > the GNOME 2.17.x releases. > > The Orca v2.17.0 release represents a relatively stable tarball > containing enhancements and bug fixes done since the release of Orca > v1.0.0 for GNOME 2.16 in September. Note that we fully expect to do an > Orca v2.17.1 tarball for the GNOME 2.17.1 release the week of October > 16th. > > ================================== > * What's changed for Orca v2.17.0? > ================================== > > * Updates to user requirements and functional specification. > > * Added Orca man pages. > > * New and improved regression test harness. > > * Added new Orca main window to allow one to have a GUI option for > quitting Orca and invoking the configuration settings. The appearance > of this window can be enabled/disabled in the new "General" tab > of the configuration dialog. Also added "Apply" button the > configuration GUI window. > > * Added new Orca "Quit" dialog. > > * Refactor in default.py and other scripts to add isTextArea method to > determine if an object is a text area or not. This allows us to deal > with the growing number of things that are text areas, but choose to > give themselves different roles (e.g., GTK's 'text', OpenOffice's > 'paragraph', and Gecko's 'entry'). > > * Added Gecko.py toolkit script to cover apps that use the Mozilla > Gecko toolkit (e.g., Firefox, Thunderbird, Yelp, etc.). Some work > done with new Firefox 3 at-spi implementation, but much work is > still needed. > > * Added repeated character count handling (rfe/bug 354469). > > * Added military spelling (rfe/bug 354460). > > * Fix for bug 351957: Orca now allows the setting of the source and > target displays for magnification. > > * Fix for bug 351569: no longer hang when gnome-keyring password box > appears. > > * Fix for bug 344192: no longer hang when the "bug buddy" dialog > appears. > > * Fix for bug 355602: $ was being echoed twice in terminal with word > echo enabled. > > * Fix for bug 357150: use 'append' instead of 'extend' to avoid > spelling out the 'No focus' message. > > * Fix for bug 358508: use obj instead of event.source in > visualAppearanceChanged for speech. > > * Fix for bug 353532: provide a workaround for a java-access-bridge > bug (bug 355011) where popup menu events are not sent to Orca. > > * Fix for bug 353531: 'checked'/'unchecked' are no longer reported > twice for check boxes in java applications. > > * Fix for bug 357556: Insert key no longer sticks after running test > keystroke files. The hot-key to start/stop recording of keystrokes > within Orca has been reverted to just "Pause". Also adjusted the > "don't write pause keystrokes" code to recognize F21 (which is the > Pause key on my Sun type 6 keyboard). > > * Partial work on bug 354970: add command_name dictionary from Jorge > Sandin (thanks Jorge!). Also refactored the way keybindings and > braille bindings are defined and obtained to make it easier to > discover and override their definitions. > > * Partial work on bug 349954: become more cognizant of multibyte UTF-8 > characters. > > * Fix for bug 357509: Flat review now uses the "uppercase" voice > settings for uppercase text when navigating by line. > > * Fix for bug 357507: SayAll now uses the "uppercase" voice settings > for uppercase text. > > * Fix for bug 356970: repeated character count now works with Evolution > > * Fix for bug 356911: Orca no longer generates a traceback with > Numpad-Minus when positioned at the end of a line. > > * Fix for bug 356179: the test in Orca to determine if the desktop > is running now works better. > > * Fix for bug 340849: Orca now provides an option to allow the user to > automatically logout of the GNOME desktop if the gconf accessibility > flag wasn't previously enabled before running the setup utility. > > * Fix for bug 355927: duplicate window titles are now spoken when > navigating between them using Alt+Tab. > > * Fix for bug 350216: "LAYERED_PANE" is no longer in speech context. > > * Fix for bug 351797: make sure configuration GUI pops to top. > > * Fix for bug 347128: allow pan buttons to be used on braille display > while in learn mode. > > * Fix for bug 347650: allow a script to determine if it is the active > script or not (compare self to orca_state.activeScript). > > * For for bug 354983: From Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (THANKS!) > to fill in dead code paths in brlmodule.c. > > * Fix for bug 354487: apostrophe no longer delimits a word boundary. > > * Fix for bug 354985: gedit script no longer generates a traceback due > to a missing import line. > > * Fix for bug 342602: StarOffice Writer table cell speaking order fixed. > > * Fix for bug 351826: change orca shell script from sh to bash to allow > it to better respond to "kill -HUP" signals. > > * Fix for bug 352866: add "-q" and "--quit" usage information > > * Fix for bug 353600: don't require the user to be root when doing a > "make distcheck". > > * New and updated translations (THANKS!): > > dz Dzongkha Pema Geyleg > el Greek Simos Xenitellis > es Spanish Francisco Javier F. Serrador > et Estonian Priit Laes > gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro > th Thai Supranee Thirawatthanasuk and > tr Turkish Deniz Kocak and Baris Cicek > > ===================== > * Where can I get it? > ===================== > > You can obtain Orca v2.17.0 in source code form at the following URL: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.0.tar.bz2 > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.0.tar.gz > >>From the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office, > > Willie Walker, Project Lead > Mike Pedersen, User Interface Design > Rich Burridge, Core Development and Scripting > Lynn Monsanto, Core Development and Java Platform Support > Michele Budris, Program Management > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > __________ NOD32 1.1792 (20061005) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
