2.32.0 - 27-September-2010
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Damyan Ivanov
cs Czech Marek Äernocký
da Danish Daniel K. Gartmann
de German Mario Blättermann
es Spanish Jorge González
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ja Japanese Takayuki KUSANO
pl Polish Piotr DrÄ
g and Tomasz Dominikowski
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Djavan Fagundes
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
ru Russian Anatol Kamynin
zh Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
(Hong Kong and Taiwan)
==========
2.31.92 - 13-September-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #609900 - Speech page speechdispatcher defaults to zh
* Fix for bug #628367 - When Orca enters notification mode and the
user switches to another application, Orca stops presenting the
locusOfFocus
* Fix for bug #628569 - Orca preferences are not getting saved
permanently if a $HOME/.orca exists
* Fix for bug #628589 - Notification message list message is too long
* Additional work on bug #543157 - It is not always possible to
distinguish on-screen text from Orca's "system" messages
* Fix for bug #628410 - Add support for object toolkits
* Fix for bug #628568 - Orca won't die, cannot be replaced if the
at-spi registry daemon dies
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czeck Marek Äernocký
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Michael Kotsarinis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
fr French Laurent Coudeur
gb British English Bruce Cowan and Philip Withnall
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil Dr.Tirumurti Vasudevan
zh Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
(Hong Kong and Taiwan)
==========
2.31.91 - 30-August-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #625422 - Remove XDG location 'migration' option
* Fix for bug #627451 - Orca needs a way to repeat the latest
notification messages.
* Fix for bug #628275 - Orca should be more forgiving when invalid
options and arguments are specified
* Fix for bug #628256 - orca.die() should call sys.exit() rather than
os._exit()
* Fix for bug #628300 - Write the errors to the sdterr instead of
sdtout
* Additional fix for bug 626272 - Plural forms needed for correct
localization
* Fix for bug #627052 - Orca shouldn't ignore of object:text-caret-
moved events which immediately follow a window:activate event
* Fix for bug #627477 - Orca splash screen shouldn't be displayed in
GDM
* Fix for bug #627216 - Orca not brailling messages received via
notify-osd
Speech:
* Fix for bug #520595 - Orca is far too "chatty" for persons with
learning disabilities
Gecko:
* Fix for bug #627769 - 2.31.91pre say all stops at links and headers
in firefox and thunderbird
* Fix for bug #627691 - When I say all a webpage content and Orca
attempts to speak an image description, the say all operation is
terminated
OOo:
* Fix for bug #627498 - Orca should explicitly present the insertion
and deletion of the last row in an OOo Writer table
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czeck Marek Äernocký
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
gb British English Philip Withnall
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
ja Japanese Jiro MATSUZAWA
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
zh Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
(Hong Kong and Taiwan)
==========
2.31.90 - 16-August-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #577705 - When Orca starts doesn't get to the component
with focus
* Fix for bug #623571 - Use %-d format directive, not %d, for non-
numeric date format strings
* Fix for bug #626967 - Orca's shellscript shouldn't use 'exec' for
calling the Python script
* Fix for bug #626272 - Plural forms needed for correct localization
* Fix for bug #626640 - The Solaris user's PATH is hardcoded
* Fix for bug #626498 - Traceback seen in orca_gui_prefs.py when
trying to bind an unbound command
* Fix for bug #626200 - Modules should use script methods for
presenting messages
* Fix for bug #626075 - Speak unicode value of current character has
been omitted from the laptop layout
Speech:
* Fix for bug #543157 - It is not always possible to distinguish on-
screen text from Orca's "system" messages
* Fix for bug #626713 - Orca fails to speak superscript symbols in the
correct language when Up/Down Arrow is used
* Fix for bug #626197 - Orca often fails to associate the correct
voice with the correct string when multiple voices are present in
an utterance
* Fix for bug #626072 - Speech Dispatcher can get stuck in a language
if the default voice has no language defined
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
zh Chinese (Simplified) Ray Wang
==========
2.31.6 - 02-August-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#625737 - Orca should attempt to clump superscripted and
subscripted numbers together
* Fix for bgo#625719 - "Right-pointing arrow" string is associated
with the incorrect Unicode character
* Fix for bgo#596108 - Use XDG locations for storing configuration
files
* Fix for bgo#624640 - Traceback in script_utilities.selectedText()
Gecko:
* Fix for bgo#616650 - The default value of grabFocusOnAncestor for
Yelp 2.x should (now) be False
* Fix for bgo#625458 - Orca is not presenting the new location when
Tabbing amongst content in Gecko-based Yelp
* Fix for bgo#624979 - Push buttons no longer showing up in braille
for Firefox 4.0
OpenOffice.org:
* Fix for bgo#620109 - Speech Dispatcher (and OpenTTS?) do not present
bullets from OOo Writer
* Fix for bgo#624641 - Orca says "grayed" when focus is initially
given to the table in OOo Calc
* Fix for bgo#624628 - Orca does not announce the state of formatting
toggle buttons in OOo 3.3 dev
GCalctool:
* Fix for bgo#625729 - Orca does not present superscripted and
subscripted numbers in gcalctool
Eclipse:
* Fix for bgo#624243 - When editing in Eclipse by pressing the Tab key
Orca sometimes reads the contents of the line
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Mario Blättermann
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
zh Chinese (Simplified) Ray Wang
==========
2.31.5 - 12-July-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#624153 - I see performance slowing with Orca after bug
373387 fix
* Fix for bgo#373387 - Users should be able to lock/unlock the "Lock"
modifier even if Caps Lock is the Orca modifier
* Fix for bgo#616585 - Numpad 0 can't work after launch and quit orca
* Fix for bgo#536827 - Provide configuration GUI option to set the
Orca key/modifier
* Fix for bgo#623099 - Present date needs a few more formatting strings
* Fix for bgo#621535 - User should be able to select date and time
format from gui
* Fix for bgo#623414 - Orca's date format strings contain an extraneous
comma
* Fix for bgo#622739 - Make bonobo optional
Magnification:
* Fix for bgo#621330 - Setting screen position of magnifier reverts to
"Full Screen" upon closing prefs dialog (gs-mag)
Gecko:
* Fix for bgo#623825 - Regression: Orca speaks unselected XUL radio
buttons in Gecko dialog boxes
* Fix for bgo#623561 - Thunderbird script needs to be associated with
Lanikai
gnome-terminal:
* Fix for bgo#623897 - uppercase accented deleted in the terminal are
not spoken with the correct voice
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Jorge González
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
==========
2.31.4 - 28-June-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#622755 - Traceback when the Preferences dialog box is
opened but espeak is not installed
* Fix for bgo#622752 - espeechfactory should be the last factory
tried when the default factory is unavailable
* Fix for bgo#606978 - Detect working speech factory upon failure to
initialize the preferred factory
* Fix for bgo#606975 - Move to SpeechDispatcher for GNOME 3
* Fix for bgo#622042 - Misordered dependencies in configure.in
* Fix for bgo#622120 - Insert comments on "echo option" for clarify
translations
* Fix for bgo#621800 - GUI: should not be possible to set the right
coordinate of zoomer position to less than left (ditto for bottom
less than top)
* Fix for bgo#619809 - Orca freezes when building the flat review
context of the Keybindings table
* Fix for bgo#621675 - Custom zoomer size has zero width (GnomeShell
magnifier)
* Fix for bgo#611576 - Present date/time
* Fix for bgo#621000 - GtkCheckbuttons that simply change prefsDict
can be handled by one handler
* Fix for bgo#621325 - Dbus call to gs-mag to show crosshairs fails
in some cases
* Fix for bgo#621020 - Fix DBus interface to GNOME Shell Magnifier
(GNOME Shell 2.31.2)
* Fix for bgo#591925 - Give scripts a means by which to filter out
events which are no longer relevant
Gecko:
* Fix for bgo#622812 - Firefox: Combo boxes cannot be activated via
cursor routing keys
* Fix for bgo#622811 - Firefox: Braille not updated when checking a
radio button
* Fix for bgo#622821 - Structural navigation should not move to
empty sections
* Fix for bgo#618484 - Heuristic method of handling Thunderbird's
flooded text insertions
* Fix for bgo#620299 - Orca does not treat editable document frames
as entries
* Fix for bgo#621158 - Thunderbird combo box content does not show
in Braille when combo has focus
Eclipse:
* Fix for bgo#620018 - By reformatting a text or comment in eclipse,
Orca speaks all the file contents
* Fix for bgo#621873 - custom script for Eclipse may be refactored
Chat:
* Fix for bgo#615489 - Migrate Pidgin script to new chat.py
* Fix for bgo#621469 - The chat-only-if-focused options aren't
respected when another script is active
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
==========
2.31.3 - 06-June-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#615968 - Catch some exceptions
* Fix for bgo#620671 - Timing problem with generator cache
* Fix for bgo#619306 - Indentation and justification is not always
spoken
* Fix for bgo#620320 - Speaking of indentation should be handled by
the speech generator
* Fix for bgo#620163 - There should be a script utility to get the
last key and modifiers
* Fix for bgo#618927 - Need to add Open TTS to speech servers
* Fix for bgo#619332 - Generators should filter out '\r' line endings
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bgo#620205 - Orca doesn't speak changes in bullets and
numbers resulting from Tab, Shift+Tab, or BackSpace being pressed
* Fix for bgo#619648 - Orca doesn't speak list bullets and numbers
when they are automatically inserted by OOo Writer
* Fix for bgo#620156 - Caret-moved events not presented in OOo Writer
3.2's Hyperlink dialog
* Fix for bgo#619574 - Orca fails to speak links in OOo Writer when
the localized form of 'link' contains an accented character
* Fix for bgo#620098 - When a line in an OOo Writer document ends
with a link which began on an earlier line, Orca doesn't speak
'link'
* Fix for bgo#620097 - When a line in an OOo Writer document ends
with a link, the final character is spoken as if it were not part
of the link
* Fix for bgo#620055 - Orca insists vehemently that you be told about
margin-related text attributes in OOo
* Fix for bgo#620045 - Left and Right are missing from the list of
keys the OOo script uses to determine when to speak toggle button
state changes
* Fix for bgo#619949 - Atrributes in oowriter are not being presented
* Fix for bgo#613299 - Orca should not present changes in the active
descendant for unfocused widgets in OOo
Eclipse:
* Fix for bgo#619486 - Orca does not give feedback when performing an
incremental find in Eclipse
Pidgin:
* Fix for bgo#619473 - Orca is not presenting incoming chatroom
messages with Pidgin 2.7.0
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Keleman
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
==========
2.31.2 - 23-May-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#619046 - Opentts/sd does not accept '\r\n', prevent
orca from sending this sequence.
* Fix for bgo#619047 - I can not run orca with --debug-file flag
* Fix for bgo#591034 - Caps_lock does not get re-enabled after orca
shutdown and when switching from laptop to desktop layout.
* Fix for bgo#618285 - Orca -q and --replace should quit gracefully
using kill.
* Fix for bgo3#618334 - SD python bindings crashes when receiving
newline followed by full stop.
* Fix for bgo#618464 - Convert scripts/apps/{evolution,soffice}/
script.py to be more legible.
* Fix for bgo#618381 - Remove verbose keybinding code from default.py
* Fix for bgo#618311 - orca.in should use spaces rather than tabs.
* Fix for bgo#618192 - All application scripts should have their own
directory
* Fix for bgo#609175 - The sets module is deprecated in python 2.6
* Fix for bgo#618165 - Create a Utilities class for scripts
* Fix for bgo#618166 - Orca's method names are inconsistent and
sometimes confusing
New Commands:
* Fix for bgo#619383 - Need unbound keybinding for cycling through
key echo options.
* Fix for bgo#616820 - There is no command to present the list of
available Orca keyboard shortcuts.
* Fix for bgo#617420 - Need unbound keybinding for rotating through
punctuation levels.
Braille:
* Fix for bgo#618728 - Orca should have short and detailed messages
in both speech and braille
* Fix for bgo#618337 - Orca fails to present command-related
confirmation messages in braille
* Fix for bgo#618291 - Orca fails to present title bar, status bar,
and default button in braille
* Fix for bgo618288 - Orca fails to present the "no more found"
structural navigation messages in braille
* Fix for bgo#533660 - Orca does not display labels for unlabeled
XUL entries
* Fix for bgo#618800 - Some items spoken but not brailled in the OOo
Writer Templates and Documents dialog
* Fix for bgo#617976 - OO spreadsheet should present the equation on
the braille display when pressing orca+a
Gecko:
* Fix for bgo#618981 - Orca sometimes speaks the entire line of a
Thunderbird message when Home or End are pressed
* Fix for bgo#619139 - Traceback in guessLabelFromOtherLines()
* Fix for bgo#618863 - Table structural navigation not working with
th element in Firefox 3.6
* Fix for bgo#618806 - WhereAmI in Thunderbird presents the full
message text when a message is editable
* Fix for bgo#618827 - The generatorCache is not getting dumped when
using Gecko's caret or structural navigation due to lack of AT-SPI
events
* Fix for bgo#618801 - Traceback in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#618633 - Remove keybindings code from Gecko script.
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bgo#619101 - Duplicate caret-moved events in OOo Writer
are causing Orca to double-speak lines of text
* Fix for bgo#538050 - Orca should announce the slide title, number,
and count when Page Up/Page Down is pressed in Impress
* Fix for bgo#618790 - The active descendant in OOo Writer 3.2's
Templates and Documents dialog are not presented
* Fix for bgo#618794 - Orca speaks "end of table" when the selection
changes in OOo Writer's Templates and Documents dialog
* Fix for bgo#617603 - OO Cell numbers not spoken in Ubuntu.
Eclipse:
* Fix for bgo#618589 - when debugging in eclipse, sometimes orca
reads the same line twice
* Fix for bgo#618303 - orca needs a custom script for eclipse
Rhythmbox:
* Fix for bgo#618774 - Active descendant in Rhythmbox sidebar not
presented
Clutter/Cally:
* Fix for bgo#616206 - Add new specific toolkit script CALLY
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Fatma Mehanna
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Gabor Keleman
==========
2.31.1 - 02-May-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#616848 - Application and toolkit scripts should not
call methods in braille.py
* Fix for bgo#617345 - getChildNodes() is returning a list of
integers rather than accessibles if NODE_PARENT_OF relationship
is present
* Fix for bgo#617204 - Name changed on comboboxes that have focus
should not be announced
* Fix for bgo#617113 - Need unbound keybinding for toggling speaking
of indentation and justification
* Fix for bgo#617118 - Speak table cell preference is not getting
saved
* Fix for bgo#615969 - Do not query toolkitName when queueing events
* Fix for bgo#616459 - Add needed fields to Orca's keyboardEvent and
the ability to validate keyboardEvent data
* Fix for bgo#615966 - Ignore the desktop when generating braille
* Fix for bgo#614844 - Orca's debug output for events should include
the any_data
* Fix for bgo#614826 - Orca is redefining the built-in function
'next' in speech_generator.py
* Fix for bgo#594152 - positionInGroup includes non-showing objects
* Fix for bgo#614218 - In orca.desktop.in file the --replace
parameter is not present in the exec line
Chat:
* Fix for bgo#557009 - Orca should provide access to Empathy
* Fix for bgo#615485 - Orca should support the Instantbird chat
client
* Fix for bgo#607663 - Create a script for Gajim
* Fix for bgo#589925 - Need to generalize chat support
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#616945 - Unbound structural navigation keys should
be bound
* Fix for bgo#615304 - Sanity check needed in the Gecko script's
updateBraille
Java:
* Fix for bgo#616691 - Orca is too "chatty" in certain Java widgets
due to extraneous events
* Fix for bgo#483222 - (Java) Where am i in JTree nodes gives little
info
* Fix for bgo#616637 - Orca is double-presenting state changes for
radio buttons and checkboxes in Java
* Fix for bgo#616618 - Node level and number of children not
presented for Java trees
* Fix for bgo#616587 - Orca does not present Java trees correctly
* Fix for bgo#483212 - (Java) Missing significant information when
performing where am i on combo box items
* Fix for bgo#616464 - Correct the issues with Java keyboardEvents
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bgo#364772 - Orca cannot detect misspelled words on the
fly in Openoffice
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Carles Ferrando and Jordi Serratosa
gl Galician Francisco Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ms Malay Ahmed Noor Kader Mustajir Md Eusoff
uk Ukrainian Sergiy Gavrylov
==========
2.30.0 - 28-Mar-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#612558 - Need to map gnome-calculator to the gcalctool
script Note that gnome-calculator is symbolic link to gcalctool.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
bn Bengali Sadia Afroz and Jamil Ahmed
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
cs Czech Marek Äernocký and Petr Kovar
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
el Greek Nikos Bakaoukas
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Tommi Vainikainen
it Italian Luca Ferretti
lt Lithuanian Romas Mažeika and Gintautas Miliauskas
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ro Romanian Adi Roiban
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.29.92 - 07-Mar-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#611321 - keybindings.getInputHandler returns unbound
commands as potential keybinding candidates
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
de German Simon Bienlein and
Mario Blättermann
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
and Jorge González
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez and Antón Méixome
pl Polish Piotr DrÄ
g
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Felipe Vieira Borges
ru Russian ЮÑий Ðозлов and Leonid Kanter
ta Tamil Vasudeven
==========
2.29.91 - 20-Feb-2010
General:
* Work on getting the regression tests working on Ubuntu.
* Update the gsmag.py experimental module to work with the emerging
magnifier D-Bus API. This is throwaway code and the support is not
fully working.
* Fix for bgo#593666 - Add structural navigation key for separators
* More work related to bgo#608149 - Orca's caret navigation for
Firefox is broken effective the 30th Sept build of FF 3.6. This
adds a new per-script settings for yelp and thunderbird because they
may use different versions of Gecko than firefox.
* Fix for bgo#609633 - Orca can lock up the desktop when exiting apps
if in flat review
* Fix for bgo#610134 - Missing liblouis information can cause Orca to
stop presenting
* Fix for bgo#610472 - Orca is redefining the built-in function
'next' in structural_navigation.py
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#608150 - Firefox 3.6's changes to the hierarchy of
tables needs to be handled by Orca
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ro Romanian Lucian Adrian Grijincu
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
ta Tamil Vasudeven
zh_CN Simplified Chinese YunQiang Su
==========
2.29.90 - 08-Feb-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#608186 - Man page needs live region keybinds
(thanks Arky!)
* Sanity check to address the traceback reported in bgo#608319.
* Fix for bgo#608680 - Please make orca's name translatable in the
about dialog (thanks Gabor Kelemen!)
Firefox:
* Updated regression tests to use local stylesheets
* Work on bgo #608149 - Orca's caret navigation for Firefox is broken
effective the 30th Sept build of FF 3.6
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
bn Bengali Maruf Ovee and Jamil Ahmed
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
et Estonian Mattias Põldaru
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
==========
2.29.6 - 25-Jan-2010
General:
* Removed some references to the string "CVS" in docs. Many apologies
for the people this confused and the time it may have taken them to
realize we didn't go back to CVS, but instead moved forward to "git"
a long time ago.
* Partial fix for bgo#431531 - Orca now speaks the unicode value of a
character when you press the "review current character" key (e.g.,
KP_2) 3X.
* Fix for bgo#606962 - availability of gnome-speech (or lack thereof)
not handled well
* Fix for bgo#607042 - Orca does not always present sufficient context
in Where Am I
* Fix for bgo#607414 - When I try writing a message with Thunderbird
3.0, sometime the message edit box is not spokened after I pressing
a tab key after with the subject edit box
* Fix for bgo#607470 - Update script for Package Manager to include
sibling of status bar when presenting status bar contents
* Detection code for bgo#607847. This attempts to find problems with
Orca keybindings conflicting or not working with the X Server
keymap. You need to enable settings.validateKeyBindings in order
for this to kick in.
* Fix for bgo#607901 - Sanity check needed in speakTextSelectionState
* Fix for bgo#607990 - Orca should present the appearance of the icon
for logged errors in packagemanager
* Fix for bgo#607988 - The messages spoken during a packagemanager
search should also be 'flashed' in braille
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.29.5 - 11-Jan-2010
General:
* Fix for bgo#586445 - Provide an 'About' dialog
* Fix for bgo#592424 - Progress bar options in the Preferences dialog
cannot be translated properly for all locales
* Fix for bgo#593203 - Orca preferences does not fit in 1024x600 screen
resolution
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko
==========
2.29.4 - 21-Dec-2009
NOTE - There was no 2.29.3 release due to no changes having been made
during the 2.29.3 release time frame.
General:
* Fix for b.g.o.#601657 and d.o.o.#12629 - Preferences cannot be saved.
* Fix for bgo#603520 - Need to add script mapping to check for Pidgin
with a capital "P"
* Fix for bgo#604492 - Orca doesn't work well with Packagemanager's
new Recent Searches feature
* Fix for bgo#604956 - Certain speech settings get improperly restored
to default when setting up Orca initially
* Fix for bgo#604964 - Orca doesn't present the section headings in
PackageManager's new "Featured Packages" start page
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.29.2 - 16-Nov-2009
NOTE - as a result of work on bgo#598917, you must now use
"orca --replace" if you want the new Orca process to kill any existing
processes. Prior to this, merely running "orca" would automatically
kill any existing processes. The new behavior is more consistent with
the way singleton instances are handled by many other applications.
General:
* Provisional support for the GNOME Shell Magnifier (a work in
progress)
* Fix for bgo#554688 - Navigation in gconf-editor doesn't work
* Fix for bgo#597159 - Orca does not provide access to the contents of
Packagemanager's HTML container
* Fix for bgo#597170 - Add support for Banshee script (thanks Eitan!)
* Fix for bgo#598917 - Orca Multiple Instances
NOTE: you must now use "orca --replace" if you want the new Orca
process to kill any existing Orca process. Prior to this, merely
running "orca" would automatically kill any existing processes. The
new behavior is more consistent with the way singleton instances are
handled by many other applications.
* Fix for bgo#600372 - Orca handles text configuration input
incorrectly
* Fix for bgo#600539 - Man page improvements (thanks Arky!)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Marass
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
==========
2.29.1 - 26-Sep-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#594022 - cannot launch orca preferences - GError:
Duplicate object id 'renderer3'
* Fix for bgo#595117 - Need to customize the presentation of the
Packagemanager package list toggle
* Fix for bgo#596257 - Generator arguments are not passed along with
_generateImage()
* Fix for bgo#596340 - Exception if no selection is given when
choosing a language
* Fix for bgo#596364 - Create a script for the OpenSolaris Device
Driver Utility
* Fix for bgo#596384 - Orca sometimes fails to speak a newly-focused
table in certain OpenSolaris utilities
* Fix for bgo#596635 - gcalctool script will need to be updated for
2.29/2.30/3.0
* Fix for bgo#598797 - Gnome-Terminal and VTE dump core when using
Orca
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bgo#592917 - Orca doesn't present OOo Writer's Style combo
box correctly
Firefox:
* Added script mapping for the latest Firefox.
* Fix for bgo#592634 - The Gecko script's handling of caret navigation
interferes when navigating editable messages in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#593520 - The Gecko script's getBottomOfFile needs to be
more efficient
* Fix for bgo#593594 - Orca says "blank" when Firefox returns a bogus
value for getTextAtOffset
* Fix for bgo#593596 - When the user Up Arrows to a line in Firefox
which begins with a nested paragraph, Orca fails to present that
line
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca@valencia Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
cs Czech Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Simon Bienlein and
Mario Blättermann
el Greek Kostas Papadimas and Jennie Petoumenou
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
gl Galician Antón Méixome
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Marass
pl Polish Piotr LeszczyÅski
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Og B. Maciel and Marco de Freitas
ro Romanian Adi Roiban
ta Tamil drtvasudevan
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄiÄ
uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.27.91 - 24-Aug-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#591282 - add a switch to activate debug when executing
orca
* Fix for bgo#591289 - Need to remove duplicate speechTabLabel from
orca-setup.ui
* Fix for bgo#591382 - Need to add "word_char" to
text_attribute_names.py for localization
* Fix for bgo#591729 - Using cursor routing keys when the caret
is panned off the display can cause cursor to jump
* Fix for bgo#591734 - "No break space" character not spoken
* Fix for bgo#591805 - Orca speaks the "restrict progress bar update
to" label when the app preferences dialog loads
* Fix for bgo#591907 - "All" hard to translate
* Fix for bgo#592517 - Cursor position based upon uncontracted text
when typing text and contracted braille is enabled
* Fix for bgo#592741 - Fix .desktop file to meet GNOME goal
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bgo#356060 - Provide access to tree item level and state in
OOo Navigator
* Fix for bgo#590682 - Orca does not always speak the Paths table of
the OOo Options dialog correctly
* Fix for bgo#592138 - Orca speaks the next character rather than the
next word when a paragraph boundary is crossed in Writer
Evolution:
* Fix for bgo#592708 - Orca should attempt to recognize Evo's Setup
Assistant and present the (non-focused) prompts
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#577899 - Strange cursor movements in Firefox
* Fix for bgo#584103 - Cursor problems when I compose a new message
with Thunderbird 3.0B3 pre
* Fix for bgo#591336 - Need a sanity check in Gecko's
searchForCaretLocation
* Fix for bgo#591351 - SayAll document function doesn't work correctly
on some webpages
* Fix for bgo#591592 - Orca does not speak and braille the appropriate
information when moving by headings on all sites
* Fix for bgo#591807 - Orca sometimes presents the previous line when
Home/End is pressed in Gecko
* Fix for bgo#591860 - Orca grinds to a halt when Ctrl+End is pressed
in a really long message in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#592383 - Orca gets stuck when it encounters a paragraph
in Firefox which begins with a multi-line-high character
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
de German Christian Kirbach and Simon Bienlein
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fr French Claude Paroz
ga Irish Seán de Búrca
gl Galician Antón Méixome
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel and Sweta Kothari
he Hebrew Mark Krapivner
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.27.90 - 09-Aug-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#480883 - User can pan right in braille indefinitely at
the end of a web page
* Fix for bgo#523693 - Positioning of the cursor when editing text
This fixes a 'jumping cursor' problem when deleting text in the
middle of a long text area and also adds a _realignViewport method
to braille.py. The method works off new settings (you need to
hand-edit your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py
file for now):
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_EDGE = 0
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_MARGIN = 1
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_WORD = 2
brailleAlignmentMargin = 3
brailleMaximumJump = 8
brailleAlignmentStyle = ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_EDGE
The default alignment style matches what we have today.
The ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_MARGIN style uses brailleAlignmentMargin and is
effectively a "push" model - when you get to the edge of the
display, the viewport is pushed to keep the cursor cell at the
margin (until you reach the edge of the text).
The ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_WORD style uses brailleAlignmentMargin in the
same push model above, but when it pushes the viewport, it pushes it
so the edge lands on a word boundary. In the event we hit a really
long word, the brailleMaximumJump setting limits how far we jump.
* Fix for bgo#570070 - Remove 'item' from spoken string that
represents position/index information
* Fix for bgo#574344 - Support for different progress bar "verbosity
levels" should be implemented
* Fix for bgo#576847 - Add ability to 'flash' braille messages
This adds a 'flashTime' parameter to the braille.displayMessage and
braille.displayRegions methods. If it is 0, the message will not be
flashed. If it is greater than 0, the current message on the display
will be saved and the new message will be flashed for flashTime
milliseconds. If it is less than 0, the current message on the display
will be saved and the new message will be shown until some other action,
such as a keypress or cursor routing key press, causes the display to
revert back to the original message.
* Fix for bgo#578832 - Flash locking modifier key state in braille
This flashes a message for the Caps Lock modifier if the "Enable
locking keys" checkbox is checked on the "Key Echo" tab in the Orca
preferences UI. The flash time is settable via the
'brailleFlashTime' setting which represents the number of
milliseconds to flash a message.
* Fix for bgo#582318 - Pressing panning buttons on the braille display
should not interrupt speech
* Fix for bgo#582491 - Strange message table behavior with Evolution
* Fix for bgo#589610 - isupper should be used on unicode and not UTF-8
strings
* Fix for bgo#590219 - Incorrect text displayed with Orca quit
confirmation dialog when the user using non english locale
* Fix for bgo#590378 - configure.in and orca.spec.in need updating for
compile and runtime dependencies.
* Fix for bgo#590382 - Orca should have a script for packagemanager
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bgo#363820 - Orca should inform the user when text in given
cell in Calc is too wide for that column
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#590267 - Thunderbird's rendering of smileys as named
paragraphs without accessible text causes Orca to speak the tutorial
message inappropriately
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bn Bengali Maruf Ovee and Jamil Ahmed
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
==========
2.27.5 - 27-Jul-2009
General:
* Migrated to GtkBuilder (bgo#582506 and bgo#589362)
* Fix for bgo#434600 â cursor routing keys cannot be used to position
caret at end of line
* Re-fix for bgo#568696 - locus of focus changes when updating list of
files in nautilus
* Work on bgo#575784 - accented characters are not echoed correctly.
Orca now has two new checkboxes on the "Key Echo" tab of the
preferences UI. The first, "Enable non-spacing diacritical keys",
specifies whether dead keys are echoed or not. The second, "Enable
echo by character", specifies if the exact character typed in an
editable text area is to be spoken. This differs from the "Enable
alphanumeric and punctuation keys" setting in that it echos the
characters that are typed vs. the keys that were pressed. If both
are enabled, preference is given to character echo where it applies.
* Fix for bgo#578106 - Gtk Warning on starting Orca Preferences GUI
* Fix for bgo#585049 - When I select paragraphs with Ctrl+Shift+Down
key combination, Orca says incorrect information message
* Fix for bgo#585417 - Allow pauses to be inserted in speech output
* Fix for bgo#585948 - Automatic position index spoken request. Orca
now has a "Speak child position" on the "Speech" tab in the
preferences UI. When selected, Orca will speak the child position
(e.g., 'item 6 of 7') of various objects.
* Fix for bgo#588471 - Orca's clicking functionality should click on
the locusOfFocus when not in flat review
* Fix for bgo#588774 - Tooltips aren't always presented
* Fix for bgo#589244 - Remove libgail-gnome usage, use gail in gtk+
instead
* Fix for bgo#589497 - orca shouldn't speak entering / leaving flat
review mode when verbosity is set to brief
* Fix for bgo#589504 - Orca double speaks typed characters when input
method is enabled
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#480883 - Braille navigation on Webpages. The pan left
and pan right buttons on the braille display should now allow you to
scroll through the page content in linear order.
* Fix for bgo#586399 - Orca should provide support/access to "Mouse
Overs" in web content. See the following message for a complete
description:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2009-July/msg00186.html.
* Fix for bgo#588910 - Orca should support the spellcheck as you go in
mozilla applications
* Fix for bgo#589455 - Can not activate links with structural
navigation keys
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fr French Claude Paroz
==========
2.27.4 - 13-Jul-2009
General:
* Fix for doo#9676 - Orca fails to launch. Make sure setting the PATH
follows sh syntax and not bash.
* Latent work for bgo#400729 - Orca should provide support for general
audio. This adds some latent support for audio that gives people
something to experiment with as soon as bgo#570658 is done.
* Fix for bgo#561452 - Factor out included "louis" C extension. This
now requires liblouis 1.6.2 and the liblouis 1.6.2 "louis" python
module in order for contracted braille to work with Orca. See
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille for more information.
* Fix for bgo#568696 - locus of focus changes when updating list of
files in nautilus.
* Much more work on bgo#570658 - Refactor the speech and braille
generators. This refactor is almost complete. After a pass to
simplify and consolidate the formatting strings, we should be ready
to document how you can customize Orca presentation for yourself.
* More work on bgo#575614 - Please add speakable characters: â and â.
* Fix for bgo#583199 - orca should not hang itself, or the desktop
when brltty is killed. This fix allows BrlTTY to be killed,
restarted, started before Orca, started after Orca, etc. This
requires a fix in BrlTTY that will appear in a to-be-released
version of BrlTTY (i.e., the fix is not in BrlTTY 4.0). Note that
this change has caused us to change the default value of
settings.enableBraille to False to prevent speech-only users from
incurring unnecessary overhead.
* Fix for bgo#584796 - Invoking the application specific preferences
for Orca when in the Orca Quit dialog freezes speech.
* Fix for bgo#585103 - Inconsistent behavior of flat review.
* Provisional work on bgo#585417 - Allow pauses to be inserted in
speech output. This provides code that will modify the speech
formatting strings if orca.settings.useExperimentalSpeechProsody is
True (the default value is True for this release). This allows
users to experiment with the prosody work Hammer Attila has done
before we finally commit to it.
NOTE: to indicate things are still experimental, informational
messages will be included on the command line where you run Orca.
These informational messages say that pauses have been added to the
formatting strings. When the integration is done, these messages
will be removed.
* Fix for bgo#585897 - Pronunciation substitution can miss words due
to word delimiters
* Fix for bgo#586385 - When I using where am I function with
Openoffice.org Calc, the spoken row and column information are not
marked for translation.
* Fix for bgo#586580 - Orca repeats the coordinates of Calc cells.
* Fix for bgo#588403 - Implement ability to route the mouse pointer
without clicking. This implements support for routing the pointer to
the current location (either the area under flat review or the
locusOfFocus).
* Fix for crash (no bug number) - Prevent stack trace when contracted
braille is being used. The trace would also kill speech.
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bug #583811 - Doing a select all in OOo Writer causes Orca
to say "selected" for each paragraph.
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#584263 - When I compose or reply to a message with
Thunderbird, the Ctrl+End key combination does not work.
* Fix for bgo#584837 - Find dialog fails to move caret to desired
location in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bgo#568658 - Sometimes Orca announces the wrong subject in
Thunderbird.
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#584540 - Orca should not duplicate images and lines of
text on facebook
* Fix for bgo#585871 - WhereAmI info in FF doesn't include link
text.
* Fix for bgo#587794 - In some pages I cannot read using the Down
Arrow key.
* Fix for bgo#588344 - Missed text on a page in Firefox.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Lucas Lommer
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
==========
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
==========
2.27.2 - 25-May-2009
General:
* Work on bug #354471 - Text selection from braille input device.
This is the first step of implementing this feature. Here's the
behavior:
KEY_CMD_CUTBEGIN (Dot 1 + cursor routing key on my display) -
this will specify the start of a selection. Orca will merely
move the caret to the given spot and will clear any existing
selection.
KEY_CMD_CUTLINE (Dot 4 + cursor routing key on my display) -
this will specify the end of a selection and the selected text
is automatically copied to the system clipboard. If a selection
doesn't exist, Orca creates a new one where the other endpoint
of the selection is where the caret is. If a selection exists
and the selection point is outside the existing selection, Orca
extends the existing one. If a selection exists and the
selection point is inside the existing selection, Orca trims the
selection from the right (i.e., the selected text that's after
the selection point becomes unselected).
Known issues that need to be resolved:
1) This only works in text areas. It doesn't work across things
such as paragraphs in OpenOffice.
2) There's some strangeness with speech feedback: it sometimes
says "unselected" when the text is selected. This should be
fixable, but there also probably shouldn't be any speech
feedback when doing this from the braille display.
* Fix for bug #466841 - Orca doesn't announce items when Alt+Tabbing
if Compiz is enabled. This fix is designed to improve Orca's access
to the basic window switcher in Compiz. There are still bugs in
Compiz which make providing compelling access difficult, but this
should at least make switching windows accessible.
* Fix for bug #511468 - Ekiga chat window accessibility problem.
* Fix for bug #574221 - left-pane in Ekiga's preference box can't be
read at start-up.
* Fix for bug #575614 - Please add speakable characters: â and â.
* Fix for bug #577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find"
in Gedit.
* Fix for bug #581372 - Move cursor routing and six dot key handling
from braille.py to script. With the cleanup from bug #581532 to
remove the custom brl module and move directly to the brlapi module
provided by BrlTTY/BrlAPI, we are now able to handle BrlAPI commands
much better. This patch 'uncovers' the handling the cursor routing
keys and the six dot keys; they are no longer swallowed/handled by
the braille.py module alone. Instead, they go to the script like
any other event. By default, the script just turns around and calls
braille.py methods, but it can also feel free to override them. For
example, it might look at keyboard modifiers along with a cursor
routing key to see if it wants to select text or not.
As a note, the BrlAPI events come to us as a dictionary containing a
bunch of information about the event. For example, the cursor
routing command contains information about which routing key was
pressed. The six dots command, which is used to turn contracted
braille on or off, contains information about whether the user wants
to turn contracted braille on (dots 2-3-5 on my Baum display) or off
(dots 2-3-6 on my Baum display). Right now, expressing interest in
braille events is still done by the command (e.g.,
brlapi.KEY_CMD_HOME, brlapi.KEY_CMD_ROUTE, brlapi.KEY_CMD_SIXDOTS)
and it is up to the event handler to determine how to handle the
arguments.
* Fix for bug #581532 - Remove brl module. Orca now uses the BrlAPI
python bindings.
* Fix for bug #582028 - Character pronunciations are not used when
navigating by line. This provides a fallback to the chnames
dictionary.
* Fix for bug #582684 - Arrowing left/right across tree tables causes
whole row to be spoken.
OpenOffice:
* Work on bug #574720 - Table Navigation Keys for OpenOffice Writer.
This adds in support for Alt + the cursoring keys for navigation in
OOo tables. Note that you will need to first enable structural by
pressing Orca + Z. We plan to add in the customizations/settings
available in the Gecko preferences, as well as for the announcement
of dynamic row and column headers when navigating.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #530784 - whereAmI info for list items in web content
needs to be improved.
* Fix for bug #577900 - Blank lines in Firefox text areas incorrectly
spoken.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ta Tamil drtvasudevan
==========
2.27.1 - 04-May-2009
General:
* Much work to handle the transition from subversion to git.
(Willie Walker, Olav Vitters, Mesar Hameed)
* Updated script writer's guide -- the document lives in
docs/doc-set/internals.html. (Willie Walker)
* Add setting to disable the pyatspi GIL idle handler:
useGILIdleHandler. This change is made in response to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576954 where it appears as
though the GIL idle handler in pyatspi is causing consumers of
pyatspi (e.g., Orca and accerciser) to start consuming 100% of a CPU
when the machine is idle. We're pretty sure the GIL handler is not
necessary, so this change gets rid of it for the 2.27.1 development
build of Orca. If we see that users notice strange lock ups,
however, we may need to change things back. (Willie Walker)
* Adjust debug utilities to print to console and debug log.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #579052 - Orca should be able to run with AT-SPI/D-Bus.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #573535 - Orca should use the 16x16 pixels application
icon for Main and Preferences windows. (Stephen Brandt)
* Fix for bug #575921 - When I working with the gcalctool application,
Orca says too lot of the result of the mathematic operations.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #576037 - Bind F1 key to help page. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #576438 - Provide state change information for radio
buttons that require you to press space to select them.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #577239 - Cannot navigate by line through multi-line HTML
list items in Firefox/Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is
False. (Joanmarie Diggs)
* Fix for bug #577330 - Detect whether speech dispatcher is installed
or not. (Tomas Cerha)
* Fix for bug #577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find"
in Gedit. (Nolan Darilek)
* Fix for bug #577979 - Pressing Down Arrow from the middle of a
multi-line HTML list item initially moves to the beginning of the
line when arrowToLineBeginning is False. (Joanmarie Diggs)
* Fix for bug #580423 - Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency. Use
DBus org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout instead of
gnome.ui.master_client().request_save. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #580329 - Use show_uri() to display help window.
(Vincent Legoll)
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #577245 - Present paragraph-style information in
OpenOffice. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #578072 - Orca does not always present text attributes
in braille in OOo documents. (Joanmarie Diggs)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Aron Xu
==========
2.26.0 - 15-Mar-2009
NOTE - these are the changes since 2.25.92. For a summary of changes over
the 2.24.x release series, please refer to the following URL:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive/ReleaseNotes
General:
* Updates to regression tests, mainly to work with Firefox 3.1 Beta 3.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #570557 - (ARIA) List items not presented.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Simon Bienlein and Mario Blättermann
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hi Hindi Rajesh Ranjan
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
it Italian Luca Ferretti and Milo Casagrande
ml Malayalam Harivishnu and Ani Peter
or Oriya Manoj Kumar Giri
pl Polish Wadim Dziedzic
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyre
ta Tamil I. Felix
te Telugu Krishnababu K
==========
2.25.92 - 02-Mar-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #387556 - Arrowing past last character at end of line in
Orca results in no speech
* More fixing for bug #419123 - Modified speech settings do not change
immediately in preferences dialog. There was an issue with setting
the uppercase and/or hyperlink voice settings the first time.
* Fix for bug #517387 - Orca should not read password out in gdm login
window
* Fix for bug #570390 - Spellcheck in evolution is badly broken
* Fix for bug #572215 - Opening preferences launches magnifier
* Fix for bug #572218 - Order of variables not changeable
* Fix for bug #572294 - Need a sanity check in the default script's
locusOfFocusChanged
* Fix for bug #573156 - Add a notify-osd script
* Fix for bug #573535 - Orca should use the 16x16 pixels application
icon for Main and Preferences windows. This keeps the icon at the
48x48 size that has been used to date, but makes sure it is used on
all the windows shown by Orca. If we decide to go from 48x48 to
16x16, we can change the new set_orca_icon method in orca_glade.py.
Pidgin:
* Fix for bug #572303 - Double-speaking of characters entered into
pidgin account creation
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #571812 - Orca does not read the next message in
thunderbird when deleting if first column does not change
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #570550 - (ARIA) UIUC Number Guessing Game Alert not
presented when it changes
* Fix for bug #570567 - Where am I for link does not speak the link
text
* Fix for bug #570757 - Orca can get stuck when browsing pages with
embedded panels in FF 3.x
* Fix for bug #573174 - Gecko script.py calls debug.printException
when there isn't an exception
* Work on bug #573303 - Support text attribute and spelling error
notification in FF. Limit the speaking of font names to just the
first family listed
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
en_GB British English Philip Withnall
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana
nl Dutch Wouter Bolsterlee
pl Polish Tomasz Dominikowski
pt Portuguese Rui Batista and Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Melo Casal, Og Maciel, and
ro Romanian Adi Roiban, Lucian Adrian Grijincu and
Jani Monoses
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
tr Turkish Baris Cicek
===========
2.25.91 - 16-Feb-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #419123 - Modified speech settings do not change
immediately in preferences dialog. Many thanks to Hammer Attila for
his testing and feedback.
* Additional fix for bug #569118 - Use C_() instead of Q_() with
context
* Fix for bug #569343 - Speaking of indentation is misleading
* Fix for bug #570387 - Clean up the speech tab of the preferences UI.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #555540 - Add support for additional landmark roles
* Fix for bug #561660 - For example with firefox 3.0, heading levels
incorrect sayed for hungarian grammatical
* Fix for bug #568768 - Orca starts at the top of a newly-loaded page
rather than the specified fragment.
* Fix for bug #570524 - (ARIA) Issues with Dojo combo box interaction.
* Fix for bug #570532 - (ARIA) Alert text not brailled when navigating
it.
* Fix for bug #570551 - (ARIA) UIUC Number Guessing Game Alert Dialog
not presented when it appears.
* Work on bug #571058 - (ARIA) Orca's caret navigation is kicking in
when it shouldn't be.
* Work on (and possibly fix for) bug #571799 - (ARIA) Need to clean up
braille presentation of certain widgets.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
he Hebrew Mark Krapivner
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Jonh Wendell and Andre Gondim
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.25.90 - 02-Feb-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #553678 - orca can act badly at login time
* Fix for bug #561548 - Orca locks up when closing some Pidgin
conversations.
* Fix for bug #562060 - Speech should speak multi case strings as
words. Adjust the regexes used.
* Fix for bug #563128 - Text-based setup should offer option to
automatically launch Orca on login
* Fix for bug #567428 -"readonly text" spoken when caret changes line.
* Fix for bug #568751 - Interaction with the punctuation preferences
can cause a hang
* Fix for bug #568589 - braillegenerator adding image string
versus braille.Component for table cells
* Fix for bug #568875 - Pressing "Apply" button in preferences dialog
causes autostart option to be checked
* Fix for bug #569118 - Use C_() instead of Q_() with context NOTE:
you need to install SUNWgnu-gettext and rerun your autogen.sh to
work with this change on OpenSolaris.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #537303 - Certain FF3 add-ons interfere with Orca's
ability to provide access to content.
* Fix for bug #552965 - aria-valuetext ignored
* Fix for bug #567984 - Structural navigation needs to consider text
within the document frame.
* Fix for bug #568467 - aria-describedby text spoken twice via
Where Am I
* Fix for bug #568550 - Add default keybindings for navigating by
landmarks
* Fix for bug #568631 - Orca does not update the position for
same-page links which reference objects by name/id in Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug #569346 - No speech for image-only ARIA buttons and ARIA
menu items
* Fix for bug #569835 - Orca should support the ARIA haspopup
attribute
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
NOTE - the fix for bug #569118 caused changes in every *.po file.
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ko Korean Changwoo Ryu
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.25.5 - 19-Jan-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #535221 - Automatic shortcut information spoken
* Fix for bug #562060 - Speech should speak multi case strings as words
* Fix for bug #562327 - Desktop tutor message order problem
* Fix for bug #563171 - src/orca/flat_review.py:getZonesFromText
should clip zones based on what text is visible
* Fix for bug #563200 - Orca not spoken the character code 8222
character. Added double low quote and single low quote to the
character names and punctuation table.
* Fix for bug #567428 - "readonly text" spoken when caret changes
line (in evolution)
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #566954 - ARIA toggle button state not handled correctly
* Fix for bug #566955 - Need to remove extra whitespace from braille
output for Firefox 3.x.
* Fix for bug #567167 - Orca sometimes (re)announces that the document
frame has just received focus in Firefox 3.x.
* Fix for bug #567864 - Orca stops responding when flat review is used
in thunderbird message window and message is closed
* Partial fix for bug #567984 -Structural navigation needs to consider
text within the document frame.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Rui Batista and Duarte Loreto
==========
2.25.4 - 05-Jan-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #354479 - Automatic presentation of "balloon" type
messages.
* Fix for bug #564994 - Drop eel dependency
* Fix for bug #565670 - recycling of gtk.CellRendererText()
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #565886 - Extraneous caret-moved events emitted by FF
3.1 cause unnecessary braille updating.
* Fix for bug #565944 - Missing whitespace when the end of line
braille indicator is followed by an image in FF 3.x.
* Fix for bug #566073 - Orca provides the "tree level" for items in
submenus within Firefox 3.x.
* Fix for bug #566180 - Orca inappropriately announces the name and
role of (un)ordered list items as part of the context in Firefox
3.2.
* Fix for bug #566181 - Changes made to Firefox 3.2 caret-moved events
cause Orca to provide unreliable access during the use of the Find
toolbar.
* Fix for bug #566361 - Orca inappropriately announces the name of
table cells as part of the context in Firefox 3.2.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
he Hebrew Mark Krapivner
==========
2.25.3 - 15-Dec-2008
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #563502 - Need to map "Shiretoko" to the Mozilla script.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.25.2 - 01-Dec-2008
General:
* Work on bug #508675 - Applying change in Orca preference dialog
is a little bit slow.
* Fix for bug #551891 - Flat review does not always
start in the correct place when focus is in a tree table.
* Fix for bug #554002 - Orca App-Preferences dialog page tabs are
"off" by one in speech and braille.
* Fix for bug #560649 - configure doesn't detect
Python modules installed in non-standard location.
* Fix for bug #561540 - Traceback in default.py onStateChanged.
* Fix for bug #562877 - account for pronunciation dictionary
when speech-dispatcher backend is used
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #556657 - Orca is rather chatty when focus is given to
an OOo list whose parent is a combo box.
* Fix for bug #562532 - When using Openoffice.org Spreadsheet with
Orca, the cell coordinates are not spoken for all locales.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #495303 - Character flat review not working correctly
with generated texts in XUL.
* Fix for bug #554616 - Problems accessing subsequent
lines of cells which contain line break tags in FF3 tables.
* Fix for bug #554616 - Problems accessing subsequent lines of cells
which contain line break tags in FF3 tables.
* More work on bug #554831 - Google calendar unusable with orca.
You can now arrow into the day grid.
* Fix for bug #555055 - Orca should be able to navigate
http://www.modernthaisf.com/gpage.html.
* Fix for bug #556470 - Orca should not land on empty (cell-less)
tables when using structural navigation by table.
* Fix for bug #558516 - Traceback when navigating on huge webpages.
* Fix for bug #559839 - Orca sometimes includes content from other
lines when navigating via Up/Down Arrow in Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug #560466 - Improve the accuracy of label guess for
Firefox 3.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
de German Simon Bienlein Jochen Skulj
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
eu Basque Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Funda Wang
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
========
2.25.1 - 03-Nov-2008
Changes since 2.24.1
General:
* Refix for bug #552344 - tutorial message for desktop not spoken.
This is a much safer fix that doesn't depend upon human consumable
strings.
* Fix for bug #554999 - add a new keybinding for toggling flat review.
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #357545 - Orca does not speak all buttons in OpenOffice
database table creation wizard.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #434780 - Orca does not provide access to text
attributes in Firefox.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
==========
2.24.1 - 15-Oct-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #552088 - Add Utility to desktop categories.
Thanks Patryk Zawadzki!
* Fix for bug #552343 - Quoting special characters in
espeechfactory.py and other changes. Thanks Dmitri Paduchikh!
* For for bug #553413 - Orca can be double-started on login.
NOTE: this method eliminates the ~/.config method for starting
Orca. You might need to clean our your ~/.config directory
if you're currently autostarting Orca.
* Partial fix for bug #554002 - Orca App-Preferences dialog page tabs
are "off" by one in speech and braille. (This fixes them for focus
tracking. It turns out they are "off" in flat review as well.)
* Fix for bug #554111 - Orca doesn't speak the Rhythmbox rating
widget. Please note: At the moment, this functionality requires
getting the latest patch by Jonathan Matthew on bug #368641 and
building Rhythmbox from svn trunk. Many thanks Jonathan!!
* Fix for bug #554673 - 80 cells Brailledisplay not usable because of
contextual braille Information. Thanks Halim Sahin!
* Fix for bug #556049 - Orca restarts when user logs out from session.
* Fix for bug #556321 - Setting an adjustment with non-zero page size
is deprecated.
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bug #546941 - Extraneous focus: events issued by OOo Writer
lists cause excessive chattiness and braille issues.
Yelp:
* Fix for bug #553877 - Need to implement FF find functionality for
Yelp.
Firefox:
* More work on bug #535178 - In Gecko, we should get the needed text
for the speech and braille contexts while building up the line.
* Fix for bug #527022 - updateBraille() has significant whitespace
issues, should use braille generators when possible, and fails to
underline links.
* Fix for bug #552887 - Orca gets stuck in graphical boxes on websites.
* Started work on bug #554831 - Google calendar unusable with
orca. Please note that Google calendar is still unusable with
Orca. This part of the fix just prevents a hang.
* Workaround for bug #555466 - Orca should attempt to correct
the Firefox breakage introduced by bug 535827 via script mapping.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
it Italian Luca Ferretti
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Vladimir Melo and Og Maciel
==========
2.24.0 - 21-Sep-2008
These are the details for changes from the 2.23.92 release. See the
release notes for the differences from 2.22:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree/ReleaseNotes
General:
* Fix for bug #363793 - Add the ability to change the color of the
flat review rectangle. This support is 'under the covers' for now
and requires hand-editing of ~/.orca/user-settings.py or
~/.orca/orca-customizations.py.
* Fix for bug #403760 - Emacspeak speech factory doesn't always
shutdown/restart correctly
* Fix for bug #552344 - tutorial message for desktop not spoken in
ibex
Yelp:
* More work toward the fix for bug #356041 - GNOME Help (yelp) is
inaccessible. Ginn Chen created another patch for Yelp which makes
things work even better. Thanks Ginn!
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #552350 - Orca doesn't recognize it is in a spreadsheet
cell in certain builds of OOo Dev 3
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #518945 - Orca has problems with certain imagemaps in
FF3
* Fix for bug #535188 - Page-up and page-down not functioning when
reading messages in Thunderbird
* More work on bug #542833 - Flat review in Thunderbird is largely
broken. This fix addresses some combo box related issues.
* Fix for bug #546815 - guessLabelFromLine() is guessing text that is
on other lines in FF3
* Fix for bug #547496 - Cursor navigation does not start from
insertion carat location in Thunderbird Write window
* Fix for bug #547573 - Orca has problems navigating past a couple of
links on java.sun.com
* Fix for bug #549128 - Orca should not get stuck on omahasteaks.com
* Fix for bug #551626 - Storing guessed labels would increase
performance and decrease repeated speech
* Fix for bug #553075 - Please add comment for string
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
ar Arabic Youssef Chahibi and Djihed Afifi
cs Czech Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
fr French Bruno Brouard and Claude Paroz
hi Hindi Rajesh Ranjan
hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
nl Dutch Wouter Bolsterlee
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Michel Recondo, Tiago M. Casal and
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev
ta Tamil I. Felix
==========
2.23.92 - 08-Sep-2008
General:
* Partial fix for bug #527022 - Linked text should be "underlined" in
braille in Firefox. The complexity of this space, however, has
caused us to table the braille underlining of links until the 2.26
release of GNOME.
* Fix for bug #550249 - configure doesn't use find bonobo python
Yelp:
* Much work toward the fix for bug #356041 - GNOME Help (yelp) is
inaccessible. Please note that access to Yelp is a work in
progress: on our end, and on the Yelp end, and may also require
the Mozilla guys to fix something on their end. As of today, in
order for the yelp script to work, you will need to build yelp --
after applying the patch attached to bug #545162. Many, many,
many thanks to Ginn Chen for that patch and for getting to the
bottom of a rather odd accessibility hierarchy.
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #515923 - 'Area' labels of Calc Headers/Footers dialog
not always announced.
* Fix for for bug #550137 - Presentation of table content in OOo
Writer is largely hosed and we're double-speaking paragraphs in OOo
Writer docs.
* Fix for bug #551077 - Traceback and loss of speech in OOo
Writer docs with both links and multbyte characters on the
same line
* Fix for bug #551159 - Orca says "link" when it shouldn't and
sometimes fails to say it when it should in OOo Writer documents.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #541605 - updateBraille() can take an unreasonable
amount of time with certain pages in Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug #550873 - Some live region text updates are not
presented
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB English/British David Lodge
hi Hindi Rajesh Ranjan
ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana
mai Maithili Sangeeta Kumari
pl Polish Piotr LeszczyÅski
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil Tirumurthi Vasudevan
tr Turkish Baris Cicek
==========
2.23.91 - 01-Sep-2008
General:
* Refix for bug #540937 - Orca doesn't check if the wnck python
bindings are installed.
* Fix for bug #547774 - Possible small performance improvement for
starting preferences
* Fix for bug #548380 - Character count message needs reordering in
translation
* Fix for bug #548382 - Unreliable check for Evolution Setup Assistant
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #523416 - Cannot access Impress panes via the
keyboard (Note: Requires OOo 3.0)
* Fix for bug #523452 - OOo spell check not working
* Fix for bug #549664 - isDesiredFocusedItem() needs to be more
flexible
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #547477 - Cursor navigation cycles through same text
in Firefox--bugzilla page
* Fix for bug #549529 - Improve our handling of caret-moved events
when Gecko is controlling the caret (Note: This doesn't fix all of
the issues; merely improves some of them)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Jochen Skulj
eu Basque Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
fr French Robert-André Mauchin
gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
sr@latin Serbian Danilo Å egan
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
==========
2.23.90 - 18-Aug-2008
General:
* Use DBus only if DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is defined so as to avoid
unexpected launching of a DBus daemon
* Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel
* Fix for bug #540123 â Tutor help messages with orca. (Many many
thanks to Mesar Hameed for his hard work here and to Hammer Attila
for testing)
* Fix for bug #540187 - Wrapped structural navigation toggle. (Thanks
Mesar!)
* Fix for bug #546277 - Traceback when accessing "User Privileges" tab
of "Account Properties" dialog of "User Settings".
* Fix for bug #546660 - The speaking of progress bars should be turned
on by default
* Fix for bug #547938 - Magnifier should follow Alt+Tab
* Fix for bug #547895 - make distcheck fails with intltools 0.40.0
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Work on bug #535178 - In Gecko, we should get the needed text for
the speech and braille contexts while building up the line. Also
fixes bug #527819 â Orca sometimes says "list" between items when
the list is on a single line in FF3.
* Fix for bug #535183 - Word navigation is inconsistent in Thunderbird
and Firefox.
* Work on bug #542833 - Flat review in Thunderbird is largely broken.
This part of the fix should stop us from hanging if flat review is
invoked with a message list with thousands of messages and should
ensure that we don't review things that are not actually on the
screen. There is still more work that needs to be done on this bug.
* Fix for bug #546355 - The ARIA gmail interface is largely unusable
with Orca
* Fix for bug #546895 - Braille context includes previous menu item in
HTML combo boxes.
* Fix for bug #547345 - Can't always "Alt+Tab" back into Thunderbird
or Firefox
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
==========
2.23.6 - 04-Aug-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel.
* More work on bug #542714 - Orca should indicate read-only text boxes.
* Fix for bug #545342 - Can no longer shift+click using Orca.
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #429390 - Braille stays on current line after pressing
return at end of line in OOo Writer.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #544122 - Problems with downloading files with Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug #544197 - Orca speaks nothing when first tabbing into
the document frame in firefox.
* Fix for bug #544771 - Orca no longer moving the cursor on same page
links.
* Fix for bug #545623 - Revert to checking extents for navigating
amongst line breaks. This also seems to improve -- and may fix --
bug #534431 (Orca does not recognize blank lines when writing a
message in Thunderbird).
* Fix for bug #545946 - WhereAmI fails on Gecko Trees.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Vladimir Melo and
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin
==========
2.23.5 - 21-Jul-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #520596 - Orca should implement echo by sentence.
* Additional fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new
Pidgin typing status updates. This was needed due to a change
in Pidgin.
* Fix for bug #533095 - Magnifier should turn off the system
sprite/cursor/mouse when using full screen magnification.
This requires a new gnome-mag release as well.
* Fix for bug #534022 - The Line-end symbol (46 123) should be
configurable per application.
* Fix for bug #536825 - Allow bypass of Orca's keyboard commands.
(The default keybinding is Orca+Backspace, but you can change
that by specifying a new binding in the Orca Preferences dialog.)
* Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel.
* Fix for bug #538058 - The role for accessibles of ROLE_LIST_ITEM
should not be spoken when the accessible is given focus.
* Fix for bug #538729 - In Orca preferences window /text attributes
page the text attribute names not marked for translation.
* Fix for bug #538773 - Enable a quick 'smoke test' for whether Orca
can see things via the AT-SPI. Added a --list-apps option to print
the list of known applications.
* Fix for bug #540937 - Orca doesn't check if the wnck python bindings
are installed.
* Fix for bug #541094 - Back out 'silent focus' code.
* Fix for bug #541437 - Trying to quit Orca with the mouse doesn't
give focus to the Quit dialog.
* Fix for bug #542260 - Orca should only keep track of
active/non-defunct progress bars.
* Fix for bug #542262 - Orca should only echo words once when word
echo is enabled.
* Fix for bug #542367 - Some key names not marked for translation.
* Fix for bug #542714 - Orca should indicate read-only text boxes.
* Fix for bug #542719 - Modified column header does not appear
translated in Preferences - Key bindings page.
* Fix for bug #543775 - Orca uses incorrect voice sometimes in text
setup.
Java:
* Much work on bug #435623 - Java Platform Metabug (see comment #6 in
the bug for more information).
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #538053 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed
when return is pressed while editing an Impress slide.
* Fix for bug #538056 - Orca should announce the "view" as part of
the scroll pane context in Impress.
* Fix for bug #538064 - Orca should speak placeholder contents when
that placeholder is given focus on an Impress slide.
* Fix for bug #538835 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed when
return is pressed while creating an oowriter text document.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #519515 - Support ARIA "required" state. This adds
support for presenting the fact that the required state has been
set for the following types of ARIA widgets:
- checkbox
- gridcell
- radiogroup
- slider
- spinbutton
We'll add support for additional widgets over time. In order to
minimize verbosity, this state is not presented by default. To
change this setting, set orca.settings.presentRequiredState to
True in your user-settings.py or orca-customizations.py. In
addition, we've added in support for customizing the strings
used to present the required state. By default, "required" (or
the localized form of it) will be used for both speech and
braille. Modify orca.settings.brailleRequiredStateString and/or
orca.settings.speechRequiredStateString if you would prefer a
different string.
* Fix for bug #530783 - Orca speaks an image map link's shape as part
of the whereAmI info in FF3.
* Fix for bug #533109 - Orca doesn't speak alerts in Firefox.
* Fix for bug #535023 - Structural Navigation should be pulled out of
Gecko and include more objects.
* Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not
indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #537839 - Orca does not remember the last position
on a webpage in firefox when using the back command.
* Fix for bug #539075 - Navigation problems with Firefox 3 & Aria
example.
* Fix for bug #540187 - Wrapped structural navigation toggle. There
is a new setting (wrappedStructuralNavigation) which controls
whether or not we wrap around the document when structural
navigation is used. The default value is True (i.e. do wrap). If
you would prefer Orca not wrap, you can set it to False in your
user-settings.py or your orca-customizations.py.
* Fix for bug #542324 - When launch Firefox 3.0 and pressing
CTRL+Orca+space key, In Orca application preferences/keybindings
page some structural navigation description not marked for
translation.
* Fix for bug #542927 - Live region commands should be treated as
structural navigation commands when in form fields in Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug #543496 - Problems with performing mouse clicks in
Firefox.
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #533042 - Orca should be less verbose when reading
autocompletes in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #536451 - Newly focused message not spoken after message
deletion in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not
indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #540039 - Newly focused message not spoken after message
deletion in Thunderbird if a message is open.
* Fix for bug #540407 - Problems reading messages in Thunderbird
when arrowToLineBeginning is False.
* Fix for bug #540833 - Word echo not working in Thunderbird address
fields if autocompletion is not active.
* Fix for bug #541018 - Mail messages not automatically read when
opened in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #543024 - Important header fields for received
messages not spoken when tabbing through headers in Thunderbird
message view.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin
==========
2.23.4 - 16-Jun-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #397306 - Orca's default synthesis engine choice should
take language into account.
* Fix for bug #464194 - Refactor keybindings to always care about
Control/Shift/Alt/Orca modifiers.
+ Refix for bug #487585 - Orca Usage message should be localized. Do
not mark the command line options for translation.
* Fix for bug #517532 - change dict.has_key() usage to set operator
'in'.
* Fix for bug #529655 - After inputting an incorrect password on the
screensaver, orca can't speak the whole dialog.
* Fix for bug #530368 - Only move focus if the event is for the
focused/active window.
Java:
+ Fix for bug #435585 - Java ControlPanel GIVING UP AFTER 5 TRIES.
OOo:
* Fix for bug #521450 - Orca should read the next/previous paragraph
by a keystroke.
* Fix for bug #537851 - Moving cursor with mouse in oowriter causes
traceback.
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #507922 - Include page tab name in braille context for
Thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #535192 - Misspelled word and suggestion not spoken in
Thunderbird spell check.
* Fix for bug #537425 - Orca should provide context for misspelled
words in Thunderbird spell check.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #531806 - Wrapped item lists don't give proper braille
in Gecko.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
==========
2.23.3 - 02-Jun-2008
General:
+ Fix for bug #371637 - Orca repeats "Location:" info repeatedly in
Nautilus File Browser Dialog.
* Fix for bug #448817 - Being able to configure autostart from orca's
settings.
* Fix for bug #463646 - Orca doesn't announce the presence of
unfocused dialogs when an app gains focus.
* Additional fix for bug #520494 - Keyboard review punctuation in Firefox.
(This was actually a general fix not isolated to Firefox)
* Fix for bug #524998 - Selection is not shown if Ctrl+A is used to do
"Select All".
* Reversed the fix for bug #529784 - Speech cannot always be
interrupted with flat review. Further investigation done by
Rich and Will indicate that the bug in question is an espeak
bug and this "fix" introduces more problems than it solves
(see, for instance, bug #532982).
* Fix for bug #534383 - Orca mouse review traceback at startup.
* Fix for bug #535747 - Do not assume
orca_state.lastNonModifierKeyEvent is non-None.
Evolution:
* Fix for bug #516565 - Orca speaks the full line of a message in Evo
when it should not.
+ Fix for bug #533499 - Evolution contacts not being spoken when you
navigate them.
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #511561 - Orca should not impact the cursor position
when replying to a message in thunderbird.
* Fix for bug #515665 - Orca has problems with tables that have
captions in FF3.
+ Fix for bug #527959 - Incorrect caret movement in Firefox 3 on
certain Web pages.
* Fix for bug #528644 - Orca should indicate when an autocomplete list
has appeared in FF.
* Fix for bug #532069 - Orca should read field labels on the NLS site.
+ Fix for bug #533125 - Orca does not speak Search textbox in Firefox
Download Manager if it is empty.
* Fix for bug #534393 - Moving by large object in firefox can skip
text.
* Fix for bug #535149 - Orca should override Home and End in Firefox 3
and Thunderbird.
OOo:
* Fix for bug #517048 - Orca does not always speak the correct
information when navigating and/or selecting text across object
boundaries in OOo Writer.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
==========
2.23.2 - 12-May-2008
+ = means it's also part of the gnome-2-22 branch
General:
* Fix for bug #426010 - Implement Verbalized Links.
* Fix for bug #517127 - Orca doesn't always speak expected message
when selecting all.
+ Fix for bug #517387 - Orca should not read password out in gdm login
window. This just turns off key echo when the login window is up.
The real fix belongs in gdm (see bug #529145).
+ Fix for bug #517736 - whereAmI does not handle text with embedded
object characters.
+ Fix for bug #522797 - Orca should not speak false "inaccessible"
messages when switching applications.
+ Additional fix for bug #525831 - isn't properly handling SIGTERM.
Needed to fix this so orca_console_prefs would work again.
* Fix for bug #528147 - Broke up multi-class scripts into packages.
+ Fix for bug #528507 - Escape doesn't exit "learn mode" if the active
script changes.
+ Fix for bug #528797 - gnome-speech inappropriately uses
g_return_if_fail. Only set "punctuation mode" if we can.
* Fix for bug #530541 - Suspending Orca in terminal screws up session.
* Fix for bug #531378 - FSF address has changed. Also updated
copyright messages to 2008.
* Fix for bug #532376 - Running pylint can potentially overwrite
previous results.
Pidgin:
* Fix for bug #474673 - Add option to have chatroom-specific message
histories in Pidgin.
+ Fix for bug #523731 - Pidgin events interfere with app-specific
Prefs dialog.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #529784 - Speech cannot always be interrupted with flat
review.
+ Fix for bug #530766 - (ff3) split headings not fully read when nav
by structure.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
==========
2.23.1 - 21-Apr-2008
+ = means it's also part of the gnome-2-22 branch
General:
+ Fix for bug #517505 - Orca doesn't present new active descendant
when deleting from the top of a list
+ Fix for bug #518507 - getSpeechForAlert() assumes unrelated labels
have names
+ Fix for bug #518518 - Need to do some sanity checks for broken table
hierarchies
+ Fix for bug #518762 - When using gnome-terminal with multiple tabs,
the name on the tab is not announced when switching between tabbed
windows
* Fix for bug #518914 - table column number missing in whereAmI info
+ Fix for bug #519901 - Orca doesn't warn via braille that an
inaccessible object got the focus
* Fix for bug #520611 - New mouse review feature
* Fix for bug #520974 - Some script names are not marked for
translation
* Fix for bug #522657 - this may take a while should be removed from
the orca prefs
+ Fix for bug #523082 - text-setup should not use speech if
--disable=speech is used
+ Fix for bug #523147 - "space" keyname is not marked for translation
* Fix for bug #523309 - "return" and "backspace" keynames is not
marked for translations
* Fix for bug #523268 - refactor braille support of text attributes
+ Fix for bug #523642 - orca_prefs.py:_writePronunciation should not
generate bad Python syntax
+ Fix for bug #523712 - Orca application specific preferences window
doesn't always get focus when user types Insert-Control-Space
* Fix for bug #525348 - Orca uses wget. (It now uses DBus)
+ Fix for bug #525831 - isn't properly handling SIGTERM
* Fix for bug #525592 - Provide 'diff' like output for regression test
failures
* Fix for bug #525649 - Don't bomb when no DISPLAY is set
Evolution:
* Fix for bug #519936 - In Evolution Orca does not read the messages
list properly when in "read table row" mode
Pidgin:
+ Fix for bug #525644 - Pidgin buddy status changes cause Orca to
display "cell" in braille
+ Fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new Pidgin typing
status updates
OOo:
+ Fix for bug #517502 - Orca should not speak the previously focused
menu item when arrowing across the menu bar in OpenOffice
+ Fix for bug #523018 - Orca does not speak the role for edits in the
find and replace dialog in openoffice
Firefox:
+ Fix for bug #491837 - Implement Gecko.py 'go to' functions with Collections
* Fix for bug #512103 - Orca speaks too much of the context in FF3
+ Fix for bug #512503 - Remove "object:visible-data-changed" listener
from Gecko.py
+ Fix for bug #515804 - Whitespace needs to be removed from speech and
braille contexts in FF3
+ Fix for bug #517277 - Orca should not get stuck while browsing
articles at espn.com
+ Fix for bug #518893 - extra verbosity in web pages with nested frames
+ Fix for bug #519416 - Zoomer loses focus when doing a web search
+ Fix for bug #519478 - (ff3) missing text with line down navigation
(www.fixedearth.com)
* Fix for bug #519587 - Navigating nested lists with Collection not
functioning properly
+ Fix for bug #519931 - Orca does not read certain news feeds
correctly
+ Fix for bug #520029 - Better handle our presentation of images and
text on a web page when the image spans multiple lines
* Fix for bug #520612 - Add cursor key routing support to Gecko
+ Fix for bug #520760 - (ff3) read document ignoring remainder of
object when first subelement is non-text.
+ Fix for bug #523480 - Unwanted roles appearing in the braille
context for dojo in FF3
+ Fix for bug #523759 - Gecko.getCharacterOffsetInParent() needs
to check the parent for text
* Fix for bug #526366 - Remove the unused line navigation code from
Gecko.py
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
cs Czech Lucas Lommer, Martin Sukany and
Petr Kovar
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Jochen Skulj
el Greek Giannis Katsampipis and Kostas Papadimas
en_GB Philip Withnall English/British
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana
ml Malayalam Ani Peter
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
nl Dutch Vincent van Adrighem
nn Norwegian Nynorsk Eskild Hustvedt
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Melo Casal and
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
te Telugu Krishna Babu K and Sunil Mohan Adapa
==========
2.21.92 - 25-Feb-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #419136 - Planner toggle button in main window not
accessible
* Fix for bug #486897 - Where Am I doesn't present row/column headers
* Fix for bug #513238 - Flat review is broken in Evolution
* Fix for bug #516321 - Caps lock not correctly reporting the state
when toggled
* Workaround for bug #517026 - crash in Open Folder: Deleting the last
file in a directory
OOo:
* Fix for bug #515651 - Navigation of cells in oocalc now says "not
selected"
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #508163 - Orca tends to be slow in the vicinity of combo
boxes in Firefox
* Fix for bug #511885 - Support relevant and channel live region
properties
* Fix for bug #512261 - We should implement better support for the FF
A11y extension
* Fix for bug #515263 - ARIA tooltips should respect presentToolTips
setting
* Fix for bug #512503 - Remove "object:visible-data-changed" listener
from Gecko.py
* Fix for bug #515571 - FF3 form field structural navigation should
handle form fields that are not in forms
* Fix for bug #516121 - Orca stalls on barackobama.com when navigating
by heading in FF3
* Fix for bug #516174 - FF line navigation needs to be more
accurate. (We know these aren't all the issues, but hopefully this
fix will resolve many of them.)
* Fix for bug #517521 - Gecko.py is throwing exception in onCaretMoved
* Fix for bug #517336 - Spaces interfere with Orca's ability to get
the line contents
* Fix for bug #517371 - Orca gets stuck when browsing humanware.ca in FF3
* Fix for bug #517716 - Live regions being output on listitem changes
for Bugzilla
* Fix for bug #517752 - (ff3) more orca+left/right inconsistency
* Fix for bug #518502 - Orca doesn't always speak wrapping
announcement for link structural nav in FF3
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Jochen Skulj
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Robert-André Mauchin and Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
kn Kannada Shankar Prasad and Runa Bhattacharjee
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
nl Dutch Vincent van Adrighem
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
vi Vietnamese Nguyá»
n Thái Ngá»c Duy
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.21.91 - 11-Feb-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #133275 - (gedit) accessible description for page not
correct
* Work on bug #354470 - Contracted braille. This provides fundamental
contracted braille support via liblouis.
* Fix for bug #434654 - Orca skips a line in flat review mode or
with braille navigation (braille up / down). This fixes the
bug in question, but there is an asymmetric behavior that happens
when flat reviewing by word. Flat review by previous word will
land blank line at the end of a text area (if it has one), but
won't do do when navigating by next work. Tracking the asymmetric
navigation issue in bug #515817.
* Fix for bug #440490 - Key bindings should allow double and triple
press features to be rebound
* Fix for bug #486908 - Selection and navigation in multiselectable
items are not properly handled
* Fix for bug #512608 - Punctuation in keyboard review mode
* Fix for bug #512639 - rhythmbox Library table not accessible
* Fix for bug #512847 - Flat review is quite broken in OpenOffice and
Firefox
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #363830 - Provide feedback in OOo when toggling bold,
underline, and italics
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #462883 - ARIA tooltips/alerts are not being output
* Fix for bug #506360 - find{Next,Previous}Line() should be more
efficient
* Fix for bug #511354 - cannot press enter to activate links in area
tags, although tabbing works
* Fix for bug #511389 - Orca doesn't always speak a link that regains
focus in FF3
* Fix for bug #512236 - missing links in ff3 when navigating down page
* Fix for bug #512303 - table captions are not being presented
* Fix for bug #513217 - object navigation sticking on same line
comboboxes
* Fix for bug #513425 - orca object navigation is not consistant when
moving to the left/to the right
* Fix for bug #514427 - Orca skips over headings at the end of
sections in FF3
* Fix for bug #515652 - Gecko.py script causing Traceback
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
de German Jochen Skulj
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
it Italian Luca Ferretti
oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.21.90 - 28-Jan-2008
General:
* Workaround for blocked bug #432308 - Problem with Evolution and
threads always speaking "expanded 0 items". Adding in code to no
longer speak the "0 items" if this is a table cell in the mail
message header list with an expanded state.
* Fix for bug #482294 - Contextual information for gnome-terminal
should only be shown in braille when you're on the first line.
Orca now automatically enters flat review mode when you pan left
past the beginning of the line containing the cursor.
* Fix for bug #503874 - Read by row in Evolution reads cell
information incorrectly
* Fix for bug #506874 - Flat review should support status bars that
have accessible text and children
* Fix for bug #508682 - Orca speak combobox item three time in Pidgin
2.3.0
* Fix for bug #510019 - Orca can continue trying to dequeue events
when queue is empty (thanks to Mike Gorse for this fix!)
* Fix for bug #511447 - Orca speaks passwords when they are been typed
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #510207 - key echo by word is broken in OOo Writer.
Firefox:
* Updates to the regression tests.
* Fix for bug #483023 - Orca should give the user the ability to
move between objects in order. You can now use Orca+Left and
Orca+Right to move from object to object. This should come
in handy for "escaping" combo boxes and lists in forms after
making your selection. Because these new commands treat each
object as if it were on a line by itself, users who have
requested this type of line navigation will hopefully find that
this new functionality also addresses some of those needs.
* Fix for bug #505742, Accommodate no ARIA markup for live regions
* Work on bug #506360 - find{Next,Previous}Line() should be more
efficient
* Fix for bug #509394 - First focusable item in document frame not
always spoken in FF3
* Fix for bug #509482 - Line navigation in FF wraps from top of file
to bottom
* Fix for bug #509588 - Header information disappearing in ff3 on
minefield page
* Fix for bug #509731 - braille for collapsed html combo boxes is not
updating correctly
* Fix for bug #509809 - We should try to do a better job of guessing
labels in poorly-coded forms
* Fix for bug #510478 - Character navigation in FF wraps from bottom
of file to top
* Fix for bug #511118 - We sometimes get stuck on images that are also
links
* Partial fix for bug #511893 - Live region performance
enhancements. Fix for navigation performance issue.
* Fix for bug #512270 - orca crash on visiting www.gmail.com after login
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.21.5 - 14-Jan-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #354462 - SayAll of dialogs (versus just a single text
area)
* Fix for bug #463867 - Source display and Target display should
self-populate in Orca Prefs dialog
* Fix for bug #463881 - Evaluate other gnome-mag features for inclusion
in Orca prefs
* Fix for bug #485522 - Orca should allow the user to specify the
chat messages that get spoken/brailled
* Fix for bug #486895 - Arrowing down from column header to table
presents wrong column header
* Fix for bug #489504 - Invoking a Say All should result in any text
selection being cleared
* Fix for bug #504356 - Unchecking "Enable speech" doesn't grey out
all speech items in the Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug #504384 - The Orca Preferences dialog is a bit too "tall"
* Fix for bug #505293 - Zoomer borders should only be displayed at
source display intersection
* Fix for bug #505306 - Orca's color filtering combo box should be
greyed out if the filters are not available
* Fix for bug #508679 - The second time to enable the Braille Monitor,
it can not be lauched
* Fix for bug #508777 - HTTP-based Recording ability should not be
enabled by default
Evolution:
* Fix for bug #490317 - Orca echoes the first letter of each new line
when composing a message in Evolution
Java platform:
* Fix for bug #507886 - Orca+Space when in Java application presents
script summary debug
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Work on bug #414762 - Control Home/End, Up/Down Arrow don't always
work in Firefox. Firefox still has some navigation issues which
prevent things like Control Home and Control End from doing what we
would want/expect. Therefore, we've taken over these keystrokes by
default. :-) They should always move you to the top and bottom of
the document now if Orca is controlling the caret. If you would
prefer to have Control Home and Control End exhibit the default FF
behavior, toggle to a Gecko-controlled caret or change the
keybindings in the Orca Preferences dialog for Minefield.
* Fix for bug #480881 - Firefox is very slow on pages with forms
* Fix for bug #500016 - Reading web pages by line in Firefox 3 is
slow
* Fix for bug #502084 - Running Orca with Thunderbird v2.0.X with
compose window open generates a stack trace
* Fix for bug #504742 - Gecko.py should not call
getLineContentsAtOffset() twice unnecessarily
* Fix for bug #504785 - Orca repeats certain lines twice in Firefox 3
* Fix for bug #505102 - Pressing Up/Down in FF3 is moving to spaces at
the end of the current line
* Fix for bug #506360 - find{Next,Previous}Line() should be more
efficient. Note that this is one of the new "performance
enhancements" that has been well-tested, but may contain side
effects. Please give us your feedback. If you're unsure as to
whether this change is responsible for a problem you are seeing, you
can place the following two lines in your
~/.orca/orca-customizations.py file:
import orca.Gecko
orca.Gecko.useNewLineNav = False
If True (the default), the new enhancements are used; if False, they
are not. If this change is responsible, let us know.
* Fix for bug #508624 - Checkbox tristate not announcing state changes
* Work on bug #508784 - Orca needs to handle FF hierarchies that don't
match reality. Part of the solution is making sure the user can
navigate to the areas. That is what has been done. We still need
to present the elements and allow the user to navigate among them
according to their spatial layout (e.g. reverse the list whose
elements are ordered right-to-left).
* Fix for bug #509068 - We should prevent the user from arrowing into
combo boxes in FF. Now you can arrow "up to" a combo box, but
should not be able to arrow into it accidentally. If you arrow to a
combo box and want to it give focus, you can do several things:
Press Tab (as it's the next focusable item), press Orca+Tab (as it's
the next form field, assuming your combo box is contained in a
form), or press Alt+Down Arrow (which is the Firefox command to
expand the current combo box).
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
==========
2.21.4 - 17-Dec-2007
NOTE: There have been keybindings changes for this release.
* Instead of Orca+F1 to enter learn mode, the binding is now
Orca+h.
* Instead of Orca+{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} to read the last nth message
that was presented in an application such as gaim or gnome-mud, the
binding is now Orca+{F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6,F7,F8,F9}.
* The debugging keys have been rebound as well. The new bindings
are Orca+Ctrl+Alt+{the following}, where {the_following} is one
of:
End - report active script info
Home - print list of known apps and their windows
Page_Up - print locus of focus ancestry
Page_Down - print accessible hierarchy of active application
Magnification:
* Support "live updating" when setting various magnification features
Changes made to the zoomer in the Orca Preferences now update in
real time: it is no longer necessary to press the Apply button to
see if the option you've chosen works for you and then undo it or
adjust it if it doesn't. Note that you must still press the Apply
or the OK button to make your changes permanent.
* Bug #452316 - should have a "fullscreen" checkbox
We've added a Position combo box so that it's easy to select the
position of the zoomer. The options are full screen, left half,
right half, top half, bottom half, and custom. Choosing custom
allows you to specify the location of each edge of the zoomer.
The new default zoomer position is full screen if full screen
magnification is possible. Otherwise, the right half of the
screen will be used by default.
* Bug #463881 - Evaluate other gnome-mag features for inclusion in
Orca prefs
You can now adjust the brightness and contrast levels and use the
colorblind filters from libcolorblind. Basic brightness and
contrast levels can be adjusted through the spin buttons on the
Magnifier pane of the Orca Preferences dialog. If you press the
Advanced Settings button at the bottom of that pane, you'll be
placed in a dialog box where you can customize the red, green, and
blue brightness levels and contrast levels individually. The
Advanced Settings dialog is also where you can choose a color
filter. These options should enable you to create the color
scheme that works best for you. Note that in order for colorblind
filtering to work, you must install libcolorblind and then
re-build gnome-mag.
You can also add a border to your zoomer to help separate it from
the non-magnified area. The border size and color are
customizable. We've also separated the cursor color from the
cross-hair color so you no longer have to find the one color that
works best for both.
* Bug #464705 - Provide option to keep caret in center of magnifier
region of interest
We've added individual tracking and alignment settings for
controls and the text cursor: each can have an alignment of
centered or push (move the magnifier window the least). In
addition, you can now specify an edge margin for the text cursor.
This margin is how close the caret should be allowed to get to the
edge of the screen before it's time to "push." The margin can
range from 0 to 50%, with 50% being the equivalent of choosing
centering. These options should make it easier to keep track of
your location on the screen and ensure that you can always see the
area around your point of focus.
* Bug #501414 - Orca should have (unbound) keybindings for quickly
changing magnification settings
We've added the following new commands:
- Toggle color enhancements
- Toggle mouse enhancements
- Increase magnification level
- Decrease magnification level
- Cycle to the next magnifier position
- Toggle magnifier on/off
These should help you quickly change the zoomer to best access
what you're working on. These commands are "unbound," meaning
they do not have a keystroke assigned to them. You can define the
keystrokes you would like to use on the Key Bindings pane of the
Orca Preferences dialog: locate each command you wish to define a
keystroke for, move to the Key Binding column, and press Return.
You'll be prompted for the new key. Press it (rather than type it
out) and then press Return. Note that these commands do not
permanently change the settings; they merely alter them "on the
fly."
* Bug #503965 - Orca should provide support for the pointer
following focus and the zoomer
If you're using the keyboard to perform a task and then move the
mouse pointer, the zoomer would move away from your task and to
the location of the mouse pointer. We've added two options for
dealing with this:
- Pointer follows zoomer (enabled by default): If the mouse
pointer is not on the screen when you initially move the mouse,
it will be moved into the zoomer so that you can continue to see
what you were working on. If your preferred mouse tracking mode
is centered, the pointer will be moved to the center; otherwise
it will be moved to the item with focus.
- Pointer follows focus (disabled by default): If this option is
enabled, the mouse pointer will follow you as you arrow through
menu items and move among controls in dialog boxes.
We also know we have more work to do and are tracking the work with
these bugs:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464734
Provide some kind of visual feedback for the item with focus
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504075
Orca should provide support for smooth/linear panning of the zoomer
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504077
Orca should support mouse bindings
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #451988 - Firefox: navigation by landmark
The XHTML role attribute module defines the following roles: banner,
contentinfo, definition, main, navigation, note, search, secondary,
seealso. New functionality in Orca allows you to navigate to the
next and previous landmark on a page via the unbound keybindings:
- Goes to previous landmark
- Goes to next landmark
These commands are "unbound," meaning they do not have a keystroke
assigned to them. You can define the keystrokes you would like to
use on the Key Bindings pane of the Orca Preferences dialog: locate
each command you wish to define a keystroke for, move to the Key
Binding column, and press Return. You'll be prompted for the new
key. Press it (rather than type it out) and then press Return.
* Fix for bug #466251 - Support ARIA live regions in Firefox/Gecko.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:WAI_ARIA_Live_Regions
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has recently received a great
amount of attention, and the number of websites using or planning to
use the technique is increasing. AJAX enables web developers to
easily create sites that change areas of their content in response
to user actions (such as in webmail applications) or real world
changes (such as updates of stock prices).
http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-state/ is designed to address these
issues. Live region markup allows web page authors to specify when
and how live changes to specific areas of a web page should be
spoken or shown on a Braille display by a screen reader.
The support for live regions in Orca is exposed via these
keybindings:
r and Shift+r: go to the next and previous live region relative to
the current caret position
y: go to the last (or current) live region that spoke
\: cycle through the different levels of politeness
Shift+\: turn monitoring of live regions on and off
Orca+F1, Orca+F2, ..., Orca+F9: review the last nth live region
announcement, where n is the number of the function key (i.e., the
last announcement is obtained via Orca+F1, the 9th last announcement
is obtained via Orca+F9).
* Fix for bug #473009 - Cannot arrow to the end of an HTML entry if
Orca is controlling the caret
* Fix for bug #501447 - Orca sometimes fails to speak our location
when entering FF3 entries
Performance and Quality:
* Much work on performance (bug #491756). If you have specific areas
that you think are slow, please let us know the exact details. These
performance fixes also rely upon fixes being made in other modules
(pyorbit, pyatspi) for the GNOME 2.21.4 release.
* Completed major pylinting work (bug #486726). This helped us
greatly and found a few latent bugs.
General:
* Fix for bug #486970 - Where Am I should let you know you are in a
toolbar
* Fix for bug #496846 - When tabbing to an editable combobox, text
selection should be displayed in braille
* Fix for bug #503527 - Mnemonics are not supported well
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
ko Korean Changwoo Ryu
nb Norwegian Bokmål Espes Stefansen and Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄi
==========
2.21.3 - 03-Dec-2007
General:
* Lots and lots of pylint'ing (bug #486726)
* Beginning of work on performance (bug #491576). We still have a bit
of work to do. We actually have some changes, but we're not comfortable
with them yet.
* Fix for bug #407647 - Indicate the tree level, expanded state, and
child nodes in the Pidgin buddy list
* Fix for bug #472665 - Speech Pane combo boxes mis-populating in Orca
Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug #486899 - Where Am I doesn't present checkbox state in
tables
* Fix for bug #486901 - When tabbing to a text area for a spinbox or
editable combobox, text selection should be presented
* Fix for bug #486909 - Where Am I should say "n of m items selected"
and "on item x of y" in layered pane
* Fix for bug #486971 - Where Am I doesn't present toggle button state
* Fix for bug #486976 - Basic Where Am I in multiline text areas
should only present info for current line
* Fix for bug #487189 - Where Am I should present accessible
description if it exists
* Fix for bug #500193 - Update keybindings for reviewing previous
messages. The keybindings have been moved from the number keys
to the F1-F9 keys. Bookmarks are still on the number keys.
NOTE: this effects the Orca learn mode key. Instead of Orca+F1,
it is now Orca+h.
NOTE: this effects the review of previous messages in gaim and
gnome-mud. Instead of Orca+{1,2,3,...} to read the last nth
message, you now use Orca+{F1,F2,F3,...}.
NOTE: this also effects the debugging tools. The new bindings
are Orca+Ctrl+Alt+{the following}, where {the_following} is one
of:
End - reportScriptInfoHandler
Home - printActiveAppHandler
Page_Up - printAncestryHandler (think "look upward in hierarchy")
Page_Down - printHierarchyHandler (think "look down from the top")
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #462883 - ARIA tooltips/alerts are not being output
* Fix for bug #468551 - Support ARIA checkboxTriState
* Fix for bug #469718 - Gecko.inDocumentContent() needs to account for
'embedded component'
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #435201 - Orca is too chatty when navigating by
paragraph in OOo Writer
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
hu Hungarian Kálmán Kéménczy and Gabor Kelemen
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄi
==========
2.21.2 - 12-Nov-2007
General:
* Fix for bug #469083 - Refactor Gecko.py's getContainingRole() to
take a list
* Fix for bug #481488 - Implement increased support for
user-customized keybindings
* Fix for bug #486918 - Page tab role should be presented in braille
* Fix for bug #486969 - Status bar not being read with Where Am I
* Fix for bug #486972 - Expanding/collapsing tree nodes in a table
should not speak nodename again
* Fix for bug #487226 - "/" and the OrcaKey should not be hardcoded in
default.py:whereAmI. There are now two handlers instead of one,
helping reduce a lot of confusion and complexity. There is the
"Performs the where am I operation" handler (same as we used to
have) and the new "Speaks the title bar or status bar" handler.
All keybindings are still the same.
* Fix for bug #487514 - Keys for navigation purposes should not be
echoed
* Fix for bug #489875 - Some Orca macaroon oowriter and oocalc tests
have timeout problems
* Fix for bug #489913 - Changing preferences from a test causes
tracebacks and spontaneous speech
* Fix for bug #489928 - Orca oocalc macaroon test for bug #363804
doesn't completely restore initial state
* Fix for bug #491417 - Orca script should inherit PATH and PYTHONPATH
from environment. (Thanks David Csercsics!!!)
* Fix for bug #494651 - Orca's OBJECT EVENT debug routine not
outputting all information for "object:selection-changed"
menu bar event
* Additional work related to pyatspi migration (bug #489490,
bug #491885). We will be looking at improving performance for the
next release.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #485903 - Orca doesn't read message list in gmail
* Fix for bug #490266 - Endless loop in navigating ARIA trees
* Fix for bug #490568 - Implement Firefox page summary using
Collections
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
and Tiago Melo Casal
nb Norwegian Bokmål Espes Stefansen and Kjartan Maraas
==========
2.21.1 - 28-Oct-2007
Things marked with a '+' indicate stuff that is not planned for a Orca
2.20.x release. Everything else should appear in a Orca 2.20.x
release.
General:
* Fix for bug #462984 - Orca failed to detect the resolution of second screen.
* Fix for bug #473699 - Adjust Orca Preferences dialog to
speak/braille three components that are multiply labelled.
* Fix for bug #474958 - Orca has no onboard help.
* Fix for bug #483018 - We should remove (or redefine) the orca speech
change hotkeys. Hot keys removed per discussion on Orca user's list.
* Fix for bug #484428 - Orca should not speak role for list items when
navigating.
* Fix for bug #484499 - Orca should not braille the node level for
every cell in row.
* Fix for bug #489604 - Enabling the attribute indicator but disabling
all attributes results in traceback.
+ Much work on bug #448848 - Port Orca to pyatspi. The first major phase
is done, which was to remove Orca's atspi.py module in favor of pyatspi.py.
Much testing has been done, and we think we've caught all functional
regressions. Much performance work remains, however.
+ Fix for bug #467664 - unmagnified area becomes too small to use.
+ Work on bug #486726 - Eliminate pychecker warnings/errors. This was used
mainly as a means to help with bug #448848, but we plan to do more work
since it helped catch issues that have been in the code for a while.
+ Fix for bug #487230 - get{Speech,ShortBraille,LongBraille,Braille}ForRoleName
should allow role to be overridden.
+ Fix for bug #488391 - Orca doesn't announce finds in Gedit if combo
box has focus.
+ Fix for bug #489797 - _speakListItem defined twice in where_am_i.py.
+ Increased coverage of the code in the regression/assertion tests.
Firefox:
* Work on bug #472345 - Cannot arrow out of entries in FF3 if text is
inserted via javascript.
* Fix for bug #480501 - readPageSummary() prevents access to FF status
bar contents.
+ Additional work for bug #478204, Orca should handle navigation around
HTML focusable lists better.
+ Fix for bug #480264 - ARIA sliders not outputting
Braille/childCount:embed defense.
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #376517 - Orca does not report indentation in OOo Writer
documents correctly.
* Fix for bug #435852 - Orca and OpenOffice Calc have a memory lovefest.
* Fix for bug #480278 - where-am-I ("double click") for StarOffice.py
smushs the output.
+ Fix for bug #489490 - Test for OOo Writer bug #413909 not producing the
correct output.
+ Fix for bug #490623, work around for flat_review __cmp__ issue for
OpenOffice.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄi
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.21.0 - 03-Oct-2007
Things marked with a '+' indicate stuff that is not planned for a Orca
2.20.x release. Everything else should appear in a Orca 2.20.x
release.
General:
* Work on bug 356068 - Provide a command for identifying the default
button within a dialog
* Fix for bug 364518 - Create a GUI interface to the pronunciation
dictionary
* Fix for bug 455308 - Output module and voice selection with Speech
Dispatcher backend
* Fix for bug 456970 - Orca says "0 items" for tree tables that use
NODE_CHILD_OF relationship
* Fix for bug 457198 - Orca shouldn't exit if user-settings import
fails
* Fix for bug 461719 - gnome-mud script failed at import
(Thanks Javier!!!)
* Fix for bug 462650 - Traceback when using whereAmI in Evolution New
Contact dialog
* Fix for bug 462475 - crash due Non-ASCII characters in
~/.orca/user-settings.py file
* Fix for bug 464855 - orca speaks/brailles scroll bar arrows as
anonymous "push buttons"
* Work on bug 465989 - Adding panel applets. Manage the presentation
of images in tables better
* Fix for bug 466500 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes with older SD
versions (Thanks Tomas Cerha!)
* Fix for bug 466725 - Traceback when using SayAll in Gedit when text
lacks sentence punctuation
* Fix for bug 467425 - Orca should default to an empty pronunciation
dictionary
* Fix for bug 467425 - Orca causes pygtk application to generate
GtkWarning messages
* Fix for bug 467563 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes in text setup
(Thanks Tomas Cerha!)
* Work on bug 468098 - The whereAmI implementation doesn't always
match the whereAmI spec
* Fix for bug 469615 - A few lingering i18n issues
* Fix for bug 469786 - Braille verbosity setting not reset
* Fix for bug 471220 - Gaim's prefixChatMessage setting should have
option to only prefix non-focused tabs
* Fix for bug 472407 - Orca doesn't always announce new messages
in unfocused tabs in Pidgin
* Fix for bug 472962 - Trailing space at end of message/string
* Fix for bug 473420 - Orca speaking an extra "seconds" for the
Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug 473422 - Orca has traceback when giving focus to the
pidgin application
* Fix for bug 473991 - Orca doesn't announce autocompleted user names
in Pidgin
* Fix for bug 477683 - Orca failed to bring full screen mag up
* Fix for bug 480331 - tree table headers should not be repeated in
braille
* Fix for bug 480746 - Labels for panels should not be repeated in
braille
* Fix for bug 481101 - getClickCount() sometimes returns bogus values
* Fix for bug 481343 - Initial top/left/bottom/right zoomer position
settings don't match screen
+ Much work on the test harness and many new regression tests.
The tests are now Macaroon-based.
+ Fix for bug 458150 - flat-review should present slider orientation
+ Fix for bug 462627 - Refactor orca_prefs.py
+ Fix for bug 464754 - Pronunciation dictionary checks should be
case insensitive
+ Fix for bug 469098 - Orca should indicate when a new chat window/tab
has appeared in Pidgin
+ Fix for bug 472907 - Characters "ð" and "ú" shouldn't have the
same description
+ Fix for bug 472978 - Short Braille and spoken word for "dial" should
be different messages
+ Fix for bug 476639 - Remove requirement of annotating accessible
objects
Firefox:
* Fix for bug 457988 - Firefox SSL Dialogs are not read
* Fix for bug 460284 - Orca should not allow the user to arrow into
the FF3 status bar
* Fix for bug 461620 - Orca doesn't speak find results in FF3 when
focus is on Next/Previous buttons.
* Fix for bug 466764 - Orca doesn't provide access to alerts that
appear when page is loading in FF3
* Fix for bug 468633 - No output when tabbing to ARIA slider
* Fix for bug 469686 - Sanity check needed in
gecko.getHeadingLevel/getNodeLevel
* Fix for bug 470332 - Can no longer arrow to push buttons in FF3
* Fix for bug 471537 - We need to find a way to identify truly
"focusable" elements in FF3
* Fix for bug 471955 - Orca does not provide access to state changes
in HTML radio buttons in FF3
* Work on bug 472029 - Cannot arrow into autocompletes in HTML forms
if Orca is controlling the caret
* Fix for bug 472345 - Cannot arrow out of entries in FF3 if text is
inserted via javascript
* Work on bug 472377 - Need to fix braille for radio buttons and
checkboxes in HTML content
* Fix for bug 473585 - Caret not being set to ARIA listbox when
navigating to it
* Fix for bug 475956 - Orca sometimes "guesses" index.htm* as the
base name for a link in FF3
* Fix for bug 476786 - whereAmI fails in Firefox menus
* Fix for bug 478204 - Orca should handle navigation around HTML
focusable lists better
* Fix for bug 480021 - Need to handle list items in whereAmI and
better address XUL list items
* Fix for bug 481398 - Absence of a defined speech server causes Orca
to fail to display its Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug 481907 - Traceback in Gecko.locusOfFocusChanged()
+ Fix for bug 459584 - ARIA widget labels not read correctly
+ Fix for bug 462156 - No announcements for ARIA trees
+ Fix for bug 462509 - ARIA dialogs are not being announced
+ Fix for bug 471885 - ARIA trees should output only state change if
item is unchanged
+ Fix for bug 471878 - ARIA widgets should not echo characters during
traversal using arrows
+ Fix for bug 475177 - Support new AT-SPI event name format
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug 468765 - Orca does not provide access to shortcuts for
FF3 or Thunderbird menu items
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bug 469367 - Orca StarOffice script not properly announcing
(potential) indentation in OOo Writer
+ Fix for bug 462256 - Orca doesn't speak/braille anything when going
to the 2nd screen in the OOo Presentation startup wizard
+ Fix for bug 465087 - Orca speaks "Available fields panel" too
many times with OOo sbase Tables wizard
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Jochen Skulj
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
el Greek Nikos Charonitakis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Claude Paroz and Stéphane Raimbault
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana
lt Lithuanian Gintautas Miliauskas and Romas Mažeika
lv Latvian Raivis Dajus
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
nb Norwegian Bokmål Espes Stefansen and Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Djavan Fagundes and Raphael Higino
and Tiago Melo Casal
ru Russian Anatoly Kamynin and Maxim Dziumanenko
si Sinhala Danishka Navin
sq Albanian Laurent Dhima
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
th Thai Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
==========
2.19.6 - 29-Jul-2007
General:
* NOTICE: the automake requirement for Orca has been moved from
automake 1.7.2 to 1.9.
* Work on bug 364518 - Create a GUI interface to the pronunciation
dictionary
* Fix for bug 409731 - Orca should speak text selected by the mouse
* Work on bug 415061 - regression test results should be repeatable
* Fix for bug 439191 - sayAll by sentence can position the text cursor
in the wrong place when interrupted
* Additional fix for bug 449964 - Pass the key event information to
the speech system to allow more advanced key echo handling (needed
to eliminate a stack trace)
* Fix for bug 455230 - Read table cell row should insert column
headers for non-text cells
* Fix for bug 456296 - Traceback in braille.py when doing a
"Select All" in gedit.
* Fix for bug 459080 - Some files missing from POTFILES.in (sorry!)
* Fix for bug 460215 - Include new Tango icons. Many thanks to
Stephen Brandt for his work here! The icons look sharp.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug 456446 - Gecko autocompletes not always spoken
* Fix for bug 459618 - ARIA widgets should not consume navigation keys
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug 460774 - Orca doesn't provide access to message being
composed in Thunderbird
Java platform:
* Fix for bug 458142 - flat-review does not review Swing panels with
titled borders
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
lv Latvian Raivis Dejus
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.19.5 - 09-Jul-2007
General:
* More work on the regression testing framework and tests
* Adjusted the uppercase pitch setting so that it is still noticable
but not quite so high
* Fix for bug 354468 - support bookmarked objects
* Fix for bug 354479 - Automatic presentation of "balloon" type
messages
* Fix for bug 375396 - Orca failed to exit after stopping the full
screen mag.
* Tweak for the fix for bug 376515 - Add GUI support for the new
customizable text-attribute feature: avoid errors when ~/.orca is
not present
* Fix for bug 382601 and bug 400720 - Orca should indicate selected
text on the braille display and support accurate presentation of
text attributes on the braille display
* Work on bug 395146 - Crash at start. Try to start an HTTP server on
settings.httpServerPort. If this fails, retry
settings.maxHttpServerRetries times, each time incrementing the
server port number by 1. If we are still unable to start a server,
just fail gracefully.
* Fix for bug 436888 - Include widget status information in speech and
braille for flat review
* Fix for bug 438333 - Need to present progress bar activity
* Fix for bug 439191 - sayAll by sentence can position the text cursor
in the wrong place when interrupted
* Fix for bug 442069 - Unneeded gnome-speech drivers not stopped when
GUI setup window is dismissed
* Fix for bug 446881 - Orca braillegenerator code assumes that what's
in a table is a table cell
* Fix for bug 449964 - Pass the key event information to the speech
system to allow more advanced key echo handling (thanks Tomas Cerha!)
* Fix for bug 449978 - Punctuation keys not echoed (thanks Tomas Cerha!)
* Fix for bug 450037 - Password field for gdm speaks characters you
type instead of "star star star star"
* Fix for bug 450213 - should acc._narrow(Accessibility.Accessible) be
a SEVERE error?
* Fix for bug 451531 - Orca failed to report the conversation message
of pidgin. This was solved by simply mapping the gaim script to pidgin
Firefox:
* Fix for bug 409728 - Orca repeats mouse-selected text numerous times
in Gecko
* Fix for bug 447191 - Firefox read page summary
* Fix for bug 448096 - Orca does not provide access to progress bars
for FF3 downloads
* Fix for bug 449171 - Orca gets stuck in endless loops on woot.com
* Fix for bug 449232 - Firefox move to next large object additional
tweak
* Fix for bug 453229 - Orca should honor the repeated character count
setting in Firefox
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug 449152 - Cannot create a new message in thunderbird
while using Orca
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug 450210 - StarOffice.py needs null-check for
self.getFrame(event.source)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
ta Tamil I. Felix
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall and Nguyá»
n Thái Ngá»c Duy
==========
2.19.4 - 17-Jun-2007
General:
* Fix for bug 376515 - Add GUI support for the new customizable
text-attribute feature. There is a new "Text Attributes" pane in
the Orca preferences dialog for this. It can also be set on an
individual app-specific basis.
* Fix for bug 433818 - Messages on system tab of gnome-system-monitor
are not reported by Orca.
* Fix for bug 433951 - making changes in the Orca Preferences dialog
causes loss of script state.
* Fixes for bug 435199 - Orca is bloating the swap partition, so the
system is no more usable after a short time. We did a lot of
analysis of Orca's memory usage and patched the leaks we were able
to detect. There is still a leak in the AT-SPI infrastructure; it
is being worked on by the AT-SPI maintainers and is tracked via bug
446277.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug 442709 - Need to do "combo box cleanup"/refactor for
Firefox.
* Fix for bug 443337 - Orca should not use the alt text if it is empty
to infer a link name.
* Fix for bug 444148 - Orca doesn't speak form fields at landsend.com
* Fix for bug 445578 - Link preview information would be desirable for
Firefox. This is obtained when performing a "Where Am I" operation
(KP_Enter for desktop bindings, ORCA_MODIFIER+Return for laptop
bindings). Many thanks to new community member Scott Haeger for
this functionality!
Java platform:
* Fix for bug 435553 - KeyError: 'startOffset' during Java Control
Panel flat-review.
* Fix for bug 436658 - flat-review speaks "filler" for SwingSet2
demo/source tabs.
* Fix for bug 436661 - flat-review speaks SwingSet2 toolbar image
paths instead of item names.
* Fix for bug 437226 - Orca should handle Java labels and text where
LABEL_FOR is not set.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
dz Dzongkha Pema Geyleg
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
==========
2.19.3 - 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
==========
2.19.2 - 13-May-2007
General Orca:
* Typo fixes from Mario Lang (thanks Mario!)
* Updates to the specification
* Additions to the regression tests
* Fix for bug 368640 - Allow user to optionally ignore or be notified
of tool tips
* Fix for bug 372273 - Add ability to configure app-specific settings
via GUI. NOTE: Adjusted ORCA_MODIFIER+Control+Space to now bring
up the application-specific preferences dialog. The previous usage
(reload user settings) is now gone.
* Fix for bug 400716 - sayAll should be done by sentences
* Fix for bug 432674 - In password entries, Orca should respect key
echo settings and say "star" for the inserted characters
* Fix for bug 432685 - Using brltty can consume all the CPU
* Fix for bug 433146 - Add ability to configure app-unique settings
via GUI
* Fix for bug 434394 - orca -t causes traceback
* Fix for bug 434948 - KP_Insert+Shift cannot be used as modifiers in
an entry
* Fix for bug 435223 - Where-am-I doesn't correctly identify multiple
selected objects in Nautilus
* Fix for bug 435577 - Orca does not speak labels of embedded
components in gnome-panel
* Fix for bug 437004 - Add in hooks for allowing
activation/deactivation script methods
Firefox:
* Fix for bug 407663 - Support the "Find" operation in Firefox
better. Requires Firefox 3 from at least May 9, 2007.
* Fix for bug 412677 - Navigation to links with { overflow:hidden }
stylesheet results in bad behavior
* Partial fix for bug 420540 - Firefox keyboard control wish list.
ORCA_MODIFIER+Z will now toggle the structural navigation keys
on/off.
* Fix for bug 422924 - Add more support for accessing HTML tables in
Firefox. Orca now supports non-uniform
tables: When you navigate to a non-uniform table using T or
Shift+T, Orca will indicate that this is a non-uniform table.
When using structual navigation by cell, if the cell you navigate
to has multiple headers that apply to it such as "week 2" and
"Thursday", Orca will speak those headers if they are different from
the headers from your previous location. Orca also announces cell
coordinates when navigating using structural navigation among cells.
And, finally, Orca announces cells that span more than one row or
column. Of course, depending on your preferences, that's a lot
of verbiage. Therefore, these are all customizable settings.
* Fix for bug 423427 - Need to add form field structural navigation in
Firefox. ORCA_MODIFIER+Tab should move you to the next form field
and ORCA_MODIFIER+Shift+Tab should move you to the previous form
field.
* Fix for bug 423435 - Orca is too chatty when loading a page in
Firefox
* Fix for bug 428114 - Orca should attempt to detect
erroneously-marked combo box labels in Firefox
* Fix for bug 436718 - Navigating in focusable lists in FF 7 May build
hangs Orca
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug 363804 - Add ability to turn off coordinate announcement
when navigating in Calc
* Fix for bug 433398 - Orca does not provide access to the state of
checked menu items in OOo
* Fix for bug 435201 - Orca is too chatty when navigating by
paragraph in OOo Writer
* Fix for bug 435307 - OOo Calc output traceback for
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'focusRegion' referenced before
assignment
* Fix for bug 435852 - Orca and OpenOffice Calc have a memory lovefest
Java platform:
* Pending 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!!!):
en_GB English/British David Lodge
==========
2.19.1 - 23-Apr-2007
* Turn on Orca's caret navigation mode by default for Firefox.
NOTE TO USERS: you can still toggle between Orca's caret navigation
mode and Firefox's (i.e., Gecko) navigation mode by pressing
Insert+F12.
* Much work on bug 400716 and 426360 (Firefox) to provide "say all"
support by sentences.
* Fix for bug 430278 to improve the "where am I" functionality. This
also includes bug 427481 to fix the "where am I" feature of the
Evolution Mail...Tasks toggle buttons. This also is related to
the fix for bug 423011 to finish the refactor of where_am_I module
to have knowledge of the script it is working with.
* Fix for bug 426336 to refactor the find{Next,Previous}Role methods
in Gecko.py for Firefox. In addition, list navigation (L and
Shift+L) is now restricted to ordered/unordered lists. Before, form
field lists were included because they, too, have a role of
ROLE_LIST.
* Fix for bug 426684 to speak the entry text in Firefox when the caret
is at the end of the line.
* Fix for bug 427722 to prevent web page navigation from getting stuck
on separators.
* Work on bug 411261 to prevent Orca from saying just "Link" when
arrowing up and down by line in some web content in Firefox.
* Fix for bug 426687 to only speak the entry text when arrowing up and
down in a text entry field in Firefox.
* Fix for bug 413990 to provide more smarts in Orca to detect tables
that are used for layout only purposes.
* Fix for bug 414926 to present level of headings in Firefox.
* Fix for bug 423198 to prevent Orca from speaking "text" repeatedly
when moving around in a text entry area on a web page in Firefox.
* Fix for bug 416971 to speak and braille numbers and bullets of
list items.
* Fix for bug 432674 to respect key echo settings and say "star" when
speaking characters inserted into password entry fields.
* Fix for bug 398009 to present the tooltip text for an object.
NOTE TO USERS: the standard toolkit method for brining up a tooltip
is Ctrl+F1 when the object has focus.
* Fix for bug 368626 to prevent gnome-panel from crashing when it
pops up a tooltip.
* Fix for bug 423849 to reduce the chattiness of speech context.
* Fix for bug 427880 to restore metacity behavior of presenting the
name of the window to get focus when you're doing an Alt+Tab.
* Fix for bug 413109 to add combobox and slider mnemonics to the
Orca preferences dialog.
* Fix for bug 425498 to provide option to allow user to quit Orca
without needing to go through the "quit" confirmation dialog.
* Fix for bug 413109 to address HIG violations. Thanks to Calum
Benson for his work here.
* Fix bug 423738 to use gconf module methods instead of using exec.
* Work on bug 422487 to move the caret the first line of a message in
in Evolution. There are still issues with HTML messages, which may
require changes in Evolution itself. We're tracking this with the
Evolution RFE: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423395.
* Workaround for Evolution bug 347964 to provide better user feedback
when deleting messages in Evolution.
* Fix for bug 418147 to make sure we treat characters in strings as
characters and not as bytes when spelling an item.
* Fix for bug 430434 to make the key echo settings be enabled by
default.
* Fix for bug 430726 to implement GNOME GOAL #4.
* Updated orca man page.
* Updated the user experience specifications.
* NOTE TO TRANSLATORS: finish first major pass on bug 412200 to
address I18N/L10N issues. We are now ready for you to take a
look and give us feedback.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
en_GB English/British David Lodge
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.19.0 - 27-Mar-2007
* Fix for bug 410302 to provide support for the gnome-mud application.
(Thanks to community member Javier for this contribution!!!).
* Fix for bug 349394 to roll in experimental speech dispatcher
support. NOTE: SPEECH DISPATCHER IS STILL UNSUPPORTED AT THIS TIME.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. (Thanks to community member Tomas Cerha for
this contribution!!!).
* Fix for bug 395548 to refactor util.py into default.py. This allows
subclasses to more easily provide specialized behavior.
* Fix for bug 402494 to refactor how 'for' statements are used.
* Fix for bug 419089 to refactor speech and braille generators in
StarOffice.py script to use self._script.
* Fix for bug 419006 to refactor acroread.py to remove global methods.
This also takes care of a side effect of the refactoring work done
in bug 395548.
* Work on bug 423011 to refactor the where_am_I module to know about
the script that is using it.
* Fix for bug 319778 to remove hierarchical_presenter (we'll rely on
an external utility, such as Accerciser, to provide this functionality).
* Fix for bug 420173 to prevent the Escape key from becoming bound
when exiting learn mode.
* Fix for bug 423009 to prevent Orca from speaking the role name
"list item" on web pages.
* Fix for bug 418430 to handle empty sections in Firefox.
* Fix for bug 423214 to use 1 through 6 and Shift+1 through Shift+6 to
navigate among headings by level.
* Work on bug 414926 to speak heading levels in Firefox (still need
to add braille).
* Fix for bug 422924 to add table navigation in Firefox. T and
Shift+T move you among tables. Alt+Shift+{Left,Right,Up,Down} will
move you among table cells. Alt+Shift+{Home,End} will move you to
the{top,bottom} of the current table.
* Fix for bug 417001 to add link structural navigation. U moves you to
the next unvisited link; Shift U to the previous unvisited link; V
to the next visited link; Shift V to the previous visited link.
* Fix for bug 416853 to prevent structural navigation keys from
interfering with shortcuts. Ctrl+o and Ctrl+h now work as expected.
* Fix for bug 416908 to add list structural navigation. L moves you
to the next list; Shift L moves you to the previous list.
* Fix for bug 423537 to add list item structural navigtion. I and
Shift I move you among list items.
* Fix for bug 416857 to reposition caret better in HTML content after
leaving and returning to the content (e.g., opening a separate
dialog and then closing it).
* Fix for bug 423531 so O and Shift O do not stop on images and now
say "large objects" instead of "chunks".
* Fix problem with SayAll where the speech engine might not give us a
callback if we pass it nothing or text that is just whitespace.
* Fix for bug 416964 to account for "no break space" character in word
delimiters.
* Fix for bug 404052 to let the user know the Preferences dialog is
loading.
* Fix for bug 402192 to speak text that is pasted in by a middle mouse
click.
* Fix for bug 392939 so that the dash character ("-") is spoken when
used as a negative sign at "some" punctuation.
* Fix for bug 350674 to announce when a new folder is opened and
announce number of items.
* Work on bug 415061 to help make regression test results repeatable.
* Work on bug 412837 and bug 416332 to measure and increase testing
coverage.
* Updates to the specification.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
da Danish Peter Bach
de German Hendrik Richter and Jochen Skulj
en_GB English/British David Lodge and Gareth Owen
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas and Sigurd Gartmann
==========
2.18.0 - 12-Mar-2007
* See http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes/Orca for a
summary of what's changed since Orca v1.0.0. The remainder of these
NEWS entries cover what's changed since Orca v2.17.92.
* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Firefox. Firefox support
still has a ways to go, both inside Firefox itself and inside Orca.
* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Thunderbird. Thunderbird
support still has a ways to go, both inside Thunderbird itself and
inside Orca.
* Implemented GNOME GOAL #3 - removed "Application" from Categories in
desktop file.
* Work to make sure Orca still works with the latest gnome-mag release.
* Updated man page.
* Fix for bug 413457 to prevent Orca from speaking various names for
the "-" character twice in a row in German.
* Adjusted StarOffice.py to prevent a traceback in face of some regressions
in oowriter.
* Support for better filtering of events in debug logs.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Khaled Hosny and Djihed Afifi
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov, Rostislav Raykov,
Vladimir Petkov, and Iassen Pramatarov
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
de German Hendrik Richter and Jochen Skulj
dz Dzongkha Pema Geyleg
en_GB English/British David Lodge and Gareth Owen
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel
hu Hungarian Kálmán Kéménczy and Gabor Kelemen
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ko Korean Changwoo Ryu
lt Lithuanian Žygimantas BeruÄka and Gintautas Miliauskas
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Raphael Higino, Og Maciel, Jonh Wendell and
Fábio Nogueira
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
uk Ukrainian Maxim Dziumanenko
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
==========
2.17.92 - 26-Feb-2007
* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Firefox. Firefox support
still has a ways to go, both inside Firefox itself and inside Orca.
* Fix for bug 412058 to terminate the python process better when it
receives a TERM signal. Note that one must send the TERM signal
directly to the Python process. Sending it to the shell script
won't do since the shell script turns around and does a kill -9 on
the Python process when it gets a TERM signal. The motivation for
this is to better support the code coverage analysis work that is
being done by Lynn Monsanto.
* Work on bug 354479 to announce what we can about changes to the
battery status. There are currently issues with the AT-SPI
support from the Galago support used by gnome-panel that prevent
us from doing a more effect job here.
* Fix for bug 407480 to prevent "orca --help" and other informative
commands from killing other Orca processes that might be running.
* Fix for bug 409708 to remove unnecessary code from Thunderbird
script now that a few Thunderbird bugs have been fixed.
* Fix for bug 405541 to better handle Thunderbird message summary
list in braille.
* Fix for but 408174 to make laptop keybindings work better
(Thanks to community member Juan Ramon Jimenez for this fix!!!).
* Fixed for bug 405624 so Orca wille report a label even if it was
same as previous one.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Khaled Hosny and Djihed Afifi
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
en_GB English/British David Lodge
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ko Korean Changwoo Ryu
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas and Sigurd Gartmann
pl Polish Artur Flints and GNOME PL Team
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Funda Wang and Abel Cheung
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
==========
2.17.91 - 11-Feb-2007
* Fix for bug 385949: Better handling of comboboxes in Firefox 3.0.
* 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
en_GB English/British David Lodge
fr French Stéphane Raimbault, Robert-André Mauchin
and Jonathan Ernst
it Italian Luca Ferretti
nb Norwegian Bokmål 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
==========
2.17.90 - 21-Jan-2007
* Much more work on the Gecko script (to support both Firefox and
Thunderbird). Please note that this is still a work in progress
and much more work needs to be done both inside Orca and inside
Firefox and Thunderbird. We're working very very hard.
* More work on the Thunderbird script to accommodate some unique
aspects of the Thunderbird UI. We've also logged several bugs
with the Thunderbird folks to help address these things.
* Fix for bug 376791: Orca now provides better access to the buddy
list in Gaim 2.0.0 beta 5.
* Fix for bug 397797: Orca now exposes the language attribute of a
speech synthesizer voice to allow people to more easily disambiguate
voices.
* Fix for bug 394397: Orca now handles arrowing to the end of a line
better and prevents the line from being spoken again.
* Fix for bug 392939: "-" is now spoken spoken when used as a negative
sign at "some" punctuation.
* Fix for bug 395749: make sure we reference any_data values when we
get an event rather than waiting to work with them asynchronously.
* Added new 'attributes' field to the Python Accessible class
defined in at-spi.py. This allows scripts to more easily access
the attributes of an AT-SPI object.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi and Mohamed Magdy
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
de German Hendrik Richter
en_GB English/British David Lodge
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.17.5 - 07-Jan-2007
* Brand new script for Adobe Acrobat Reader from Joanie Diggs (Thanks
Joanie!!!). NOTE: there are still some accessibility issues to
be worked out with the team at Adobe, but this script helps provide
some level of access to PDF documents via Reader.
* Much more work on Gecko.py script for Firefox 3.0. There's still
much more work to do in the Firefox 3.0 internals as well as the
Gecko.py script. We're still working feverishly on it.
* Update to outloud.py to add more voices and prevent crash when
ViaVoice is used (thanks to community member Bart Bunting!!!)
* Adjusted bleeding edge Orca code to work with bleeding edge BrlAPI
code. We expect there to be one more change in BrlAPI 0.5.0 before
it stabilizes, but it wasn't ready at the time of this release.
* Work on bug 350233 (actually an RFE): New script for the Liferea
application from community member Francisco Javier Dorado MartÃnez
(thanks Javier!!!).
* Work on bug 376517: Orca now speaks the unit of measure (pixels)
after the left-margin and/or right-margin text attributes if they
differ from the norm.
* Work on bug 347124: Added feature to allow user to tell gksu to
disable keyboard grabs. This is just one of the several pieces
of the puzzle to help prevent hangs when launching sysadmin apps
from the desktop of a non-root user.
* Fix for bug 393074: Repeated characters are now correctly read.
(Thanks to Juan Ramon Jimenez for this fix!!!).
* Fix for bug 362546: Fixed problem speaking status bar contents
(Insert+KP_Enter) when the status bar is a single component (e.g.,
text field), rather than a container with multiple
sub-components.
* Moved the keyboard layout to the first tab in the preferences
dialog.
* Fix for bug 388620: Fixed wording of "not not" string.
* Fix for bug 388317: Prevent crash in Adobe Acrobat Reader (thanks
Joanie!!!).
* Fix for bug 387556: Make arrowing to end of line in OOo consistent
with what happens in gedit (thanks Joanie!!!).
* Fix for bug 388039: prevent stack trace when running orca -t.
* Fix for bug 386267: In Evolution, Orca now speaks/brailles the
unread status instead of the read status in the message summary
list.
* Fix for bug 382890: Extended dynamic row and column header support
to OOo Writer tables.
* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
en_GB English/British David Lodge
es Spanish Francisco Javier F. Serrador
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.17.4 - 17-Dec-2006
* Added new support to edit your key bindings from the Orca
preferences dialog (thanks Jorge SandÃn <jorges@elsendero.es>!!!)
* Added new implementation of "Where Am I" based upon the discussion
on the Orca user's list (thanks for your work, everyone!).
* Fix for bug 382891: Flat review now works in the face of empty text
areas (thanks Joanie Diggs!!).
* Fix for bug 381391: Flat review initialization now handles
situations where the caret is at the end of a text area (thanks
Joanie Diggs!!).
* Fix for bug 382408: Eliminated significant sluggishness when
navigating in OOo Writer tables (many thanks to our Orca users
for speaking up about this!).
* Fix for bug 382495: orca --setup is now localized (thanks Takao!).
* Fix for bug 382418: Orca now announces when you enter/leave a table
in OOo Writer documents.
* Fix for bug 382880: Orca now provides speech output when tabbing
among cells in OOo Writer documents.
* Fix for bug 382888: Orca now announces when you cross a cell boundary
in OOo Writer tables.
* Fix for bug 382415: Orca now honors speak cell/row setting in OOo
Writer tables.
* Fix for bug 384393: Orca now reports bold or underline in OOo Writer
when Insert F is pressed (this was a regression).
* Fix for bug 375395: Orca now speaks blank lines in Evolution when
appropriate.
* Allow Orca to run better under gdm for accessible login. With this
work, we've been informed by the gdm maintainer that Orca is the
first assistive technology ever that can run without requiring gdm
to have a home directory. NOTE: the typical line to add to
/etc/X11/gdm/modules/AccessKeyMouseEvents is something like the
following, depending upon what you want Orca to do when it starts:
<Control>o 1 1000 10000 /bin/sh -c "GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge ctrun -l child -i none orca -n -d main-window"
* Improved support for BrlTTY v3.8. Orca will now first attempt to
use the new Python bindings for BrlAPI 0.5 (which is what comes with
BrlTTY v3.8) and then fallback to its own bindings for BrlAPI 0.4.1
(which is what comes with BrlTTY 3.7.2). When using BrlTTY v3.8,
Orca is now a better BrlTTY citizen: Orca only consumes BrlTTY
events that it cares about, and Orca is also smarter about which TTY
it chooses. NOTE: Our plan is to eventually retire Orca's BrlAPI 0.4.1
Python bindings as BrlAPI 0.5 becomes more prevalent.
* More work done with Gecko.py (the Firefox script), but there's still
a lot of work to do here, both on the Firefox and Orca
implementations.
* More work done with Thunderbird, but there's still a lot more work
to be done with it as well, both on the Firefox and Orca
implementations.
* Improvements and additions to the Orca regression test harness.
* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
es Spanish Jorge SandÃn and Francisco Javier F. Serrador
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matic Zgur
==========
2.17.3 - 03-Dec-2006
* Implementation of RFE 373566: Added support to switch between
desktop and laptop bindings. Also added support for allowing the
Caps Lock key to act as the Orca modifier.
* Added feature to the preferences dialog to present the key bindings
as progress towards RFE 354970. Many thanks to Jorge SandÃn for
this work!
* Implementation of RFE 354463 - The "Find" command is now working,
with the exception of bug 381391. Many thanks to Joanie Diggs for
her hard work on this!
* Implementation of RFE 376002: Added command line options to tell
Orca to start with speech, braille, and/or magnification. This
is mostly to aid things such as accessible installs and logins.
* Work on RFE 371122: much of the "Where am I" command has been
implemented, though we're still testing and refining it.
* A fair amount of work has been done on the Gecko script for Firefox 3.
Please note this is still a work in progress and is still somewhat
unstable. The Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly on the
support and are still targetting Firefox 3 for compelling web
access.
* Continued work on identifying (and resolving when possible) accessibility
issues in other applications. Please do a search on the "orca" component
at http://bugzilla.gnome.org for summaries containing the "[blocked]"
string to get a list.
* In the callback for the Cancel button on the Orca Preferences
window, the code has been adjusted to destroy that window, so that
the next time the user displays the Preferences dialog, all of the
settings will reflect the current running state rather than how the
user left the GUI components before hitting the Cancel button.
* Fix for bug 372808: Orca now reports the appropriate header
information when tabbing between tables.
* Fix for bug 377085: family-name text attribute are no longer
malformed for multi-word family names.
* Implementation of RFE 377955: Suggested additions to pronunciation
dictionary.
* Fix for bug 376347: Orca no longer speaks new-line in the
Evolution menu bar.
* Fix for bug 372964: Added text-attribute settings.
* Fix for bug 376006: Handle minimum increment value of 0.0 when
calculating decimal places to present for sliders.
* Fix for bug 358467: Mapped the time-admin to the users-admin
script so that Orca can correctly read the table of time servers.
* Change for bug 364529. Initial value in the Preferences Glade file
for pitch is now 5.0 and not 9.0. Also allow voice styles to be
undefined. The hypertext link voice will now initially derive
its values from the default voice settings.
* Partial fix for bug 356060: Provide access to tree item level and
state in OOo Navigator.
* Defensive fix for bug 353432: Orca no longer announces name changes
for objects who tell us their name has changed when it really
hasn't.
* Work on bug 363815: Implement the ability to have application
specific settings.
* Fix for bug 364452: make sure Orca's name shows up as "orca" and not
"-c" in at-poke.
* Fix for bug 319666: Orca now announces "0 items" when encountering
various empty objects.
* Fix for bug 381653: Orca now announces the new state of a checkbox
when it is changed inside a table cell.
* More work on the specification and regression test suite.
* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
hu Hungarian Kálmán Kéménczy and Gabor Kelemen
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.17.2 - 05-Nov-2006
* Updates to requirements and specifications documents.
* Fair amount of work on Gecko.py script, though it is not at all ready
for compelling access to Firefox (and hence the web) yet. Also did
a fair amount of work looking at flat review and filing a number of
bugs against the AT-SPI implementation in progress in Firefox 3.
* Fix for bug 369292: gcalctool now speaks the new result when
the "=" button is activated.
* Fix for bug 337063: Orca now supports an alternate .orca location via
the -u and --user-prefs-dir command line options.
* Fix for bug 365939: reading of message list in Evolution now provides
more concise information for check box items.
* For for bug 353422: Mapped vte application to gnome-terminal script and
also fixed the "backspace" problem in gnome-terminal.
* Workaround for bug 368626: prevent gnome-panel from crashing and add
some defensive code to work in the case where there is no event
source in an at-spi event.
* Fix for bug 338838: Orca now speaks "newline" only when moving by
character or word.
* Fix for bug 358467: Orca now reads check items status
in "Users and groups" dialog of users-admin application.
* Fix for bug 355733: SayAll function now works better for OpenOffice.
* Fix for bug 364086: Orca no longer reports "paragraph 0 paragraph"
when you begin typing in a OpenOffice Calc cell.
* Fix for bug 363801: Orca provides confirmation when dynamic row and/or
column headers are set. In addition, column numbers in OpenOffice
Calc are now spoken as column letters.
* Fix for bug 363807: Orca now reports the number of items in a table.
* Fix for bug 321184: Orca now supports a custom pronunciation dictionary.
* Fix for bug 363802: Orca no longer says "cell" when navigating from
cell to cell in OpenOffice Calc.
* Fix for bug 363796: Second press of a letter in learn mode now provides
the phonetic ("military") spelling of the letter.
* Fix for bug 355525: Orca handled EMBEDDED_OBJECT_CHARACTERs in text
better.
* Fix for bug 357063: If there are a bunch of repeated characters
(like the greater thans) on a line that also has text, Orca respects the
punctuation settings in Orca. But, if the repeated characters are on
a line by themselves (i.e. 30 greater thans, nothing else), Orca
indicates their presence ("30 greater than characters") regardless
of the level of punctuation.
* Fix for bug 344249: Orca reports menu mnemonics as part of the
"Where am I" functionality.
* Fix for bug 348975: the state for radio buttons is now spoken prior
to the role.
* Fix for bug 363423: Orca now speaks the "Applications" menu if it is
brought up while the focus is in a GAIM chat window.
* Fix for bug 349956: Orca no longer causes the gedit Print Dialog to slow
down.
* Fix for bug 361624: Flat review no longer fails to move to second
column of text in OOo Writer documents.
* Fix for bug 357829: Use real active descendant of a table cell when
looking for locus of focus in flat review.
* Fix for bug 341406: Orca now presents results when finding files.
* Fix for bug 319783: Orca now speaks/brailles the insensitive states
of objects if they are insensitive.
* Fix for bug 338111: Use new BrlAPI Python bindings if they exist.
* Fix for bug 348693: Announcement of new mail in Evolution is now
toggleable via Insert-m.
* Fix for bug 361670: flat review no longer fails after minimizing the
Orca main window.
* Fix for bug 355893: Network Preferences "Port" label is now reported
by Orca.
* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.17.1 - 14-Oct-2006
* Implemented RFE 361167: add use of Insert+r and Insert+c as a means
to specify dynamic column headers and dynamic row headers in Open
Office spreadsheets.
* Fixed bug 361747: provide support for the 'weight' text attribute.
Also make sure that character text attributes are handled correctly.
* Implemented RFE 319657: In gedit, Orca now speaks the context of
search ('find') results.
* Implemented RFE 339789: Added code to "Where Am I" to report the
number of items in menus and submenus as well as the current
position of a menu item or menu in its menu.
* Fix for bug 350523: In gcalctool, give reference to accessible name
of a button over the text that is being displayed on a button.
* Added use of Python logging API to log speech and braille at the
INFO level. This will dovetail in with the larger testing work
being done for GNOME.
* Fix for bug 350219: provide announcement when you create a new
document for the very first time in Open Office.
* Fix for bug 354785: read the entire line in the "Process Fields"
preferences table in gnome-system-monitor. Fix involved a rework
of how table cells are brailled and spoken.
* Fix for bug 349954: do not make assumptions that UTF-8 strings
contain only single byte characters. Handle this by converting
to the Python unicode type before doing processing such as
string length and character analysis.
* Added 'getText' method to script to provide a means for the script
to work around shortcomings in some accessible text implementations.
* Exploratory work on the Gecko.py script to help debug and provide
an understanding of what the Gecko AT-SPI implementation is providing
us.
* Added ZONE support for goBegin and goEnd functions of flat review
(thanks Joanie Diggs!)
* Improvements to the test harness. NOTE: as a result of the GNOME
Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit, we may revise this harness as
the overall testing strategy for GNOME develops.
* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
et Estonian Ivar Smolin
==========
2.17.0 - 04-Oct-2006
* 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 <rodrigo@novell.com> (THANKS!) - 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
tr Turkish Deniz Kocak and Baris Cicek
==========
1.0.0 - 04-Sep-2006
* Updates to User's Guide, Architecture, Requirements, and Script Writing
Guide.
* Fix for bug 353467: run in a terminal if we detect text setup will
be used.
* Fix for bug 353476: apply better fallback algorithm to find a
working synthesis engine.
* Fix for bug 352578: ensure that checking/unchecking speech in the
configuration GUI does the appropriate thing.
* Refixed bug 350854 and fix for bug 353268: do not double read lines
in OpenOffice and also make sure focus is properly handled in gedit
after a window maximize.
* Fix for bug 353237: prevent COMM_FAILURE messages when trying to get
the object state (thanks Oana from Baum!).
* Fix for bug 352866: add "-q" and "--quit" options to orca script to
allow one to more easily kill orca (thanks Javier from ONCE!).
* Fix for bug 352240: prevent wrong object report for Java
applications in case of different event ordering (thanks Oana from
Baum!).
* Fix for bug 352257: improved isSameObject() function (thanks Oana from
Baum!).
* Fix for bug 352254: better handling of expand/collapse events for the
Java platform (thanks Oana from Baum!).
* Translations:
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov, Rostislav Raykov,
Vladimir Petkov, and Iassen Pramatarov
bn Bengali Runa Bhattacharjee
bn_IN Bengali Runa Bhattacharjee
ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj
cs Czech Miloslav Trmac
cy Welsh Rhys Jones
de German Hendrik Brandt
dz Dzongkha Guntupalli Karunakar
el Greek Nikos Charonitakis
en_CA English/Canada Adam Weinberger
en_GB English/British David Lodge and Gareth Owen
es Spanish Francisco Javier F. Serrador
and Maria Majadas
eu Basque Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
fr French Cedric Corazza, Robert-André Mauchin,
and Christophe Merlet
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel
hi Hindi Rajesh Ranjan
it Italian Aldo Giambelluca and Alessio Frusciante
ja Japanese Satoru Satoh
ko Korean Changwoo Ryu
lt Lithuanian Žygimantas BeruÄka and Gintautas Miliauskas
lv Latvian Raivis Dejus
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
ml Malayalam Ani Peter
mr Marathi Rahul Bhalerao
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas and Sigurd Gartmann
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar and Shiva Prasad Pokharel
nl Dutch Tino Meinen, Elros Cyriatan, Taco Witte,
Vincent van Adrighem, and Wouter Bolsterlee
or Oriya Subhransu Behera
pa Punjabi Amanpreet Singh Alam
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Raphael Higino, Gustavo Noronha Silva,
and Estêvão Samuel Procópio
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev
rw Kinyarwanda Steve Murphy, Philibert Ndandali,
Viateur Mugenzi, Noëlla Mupole,
Carole Karema, Jean Baptiste Ngendahayo,
Augustin Kiberwa, and Donatien Nsengiyumva
sr@Latn Serbian Danilo Å egan
sr Serbian Danilo Å egan
sv Swedish Christian Rose and Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil I. Felix
uk Ukrainian Maxim Dziumanenko
vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Funda Wang and Li Shaojie
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
==========
0.9.0 - 21-Aug-2006
* Updates to the requirements guide and input and output style guides.
* For regression testing purposes, allow us to get what would have
been spoken even if settings.speechServerFactory is None.
* Improvements to the "orca" shell script. Provides better
availability and also provides a better means for killing/restarting
Orca.
* New orca.desktop file and icon.
* New latent support to allow the setting of the source and target
displays for magnification. If it exists,
settings.magnifierTargetDisplay will be treated as an X Window System
DISPLAY string (e.g., ":0.1") that says where to display the magnified
area (the default is split screen magnification on the primary
display). If it exists, settings.magnifierSourceDisplay will be
treated as an X Window System DISPLAY string (e.g., ":0.0") that says
what is to be magnified.
* Many thanks to our friends at Baum for providing many fixes and testing
for the Java platform:
* Fix for bug 351891: provide better handling when receiving an
active descendant changed for an object with no active
descendant.
* Fix for bug 350740: report combo box selection change for Java
applications.
* Fix for bug 350736: better presentation for focused lists in Java
applications.
* Fix for bug 350739: improve list navigation for the Java platform.
* Fix for bug 350724: improve handling of LABEL_FOR and LABELLED_BY
objects.
* Fix for bug 351914: provide better support for combo boxes on
Java platform.
* Fix for bug 352233: prevent exception when getting the child of
an object from a Java application.
* Fix for bug 352238: do not assume last input event was a keyboard
event.
* Fix for bug 350213: provide defensive programming for combo box
braille generator.
* Fix for bug 351501: do not generate a traceback when trying to
braille Evolution message folder tree.
* Fix for bug 350854: handle object:state-changed:focused events so
Orca will recognize when GEdit's edit area has focus again after a
maximize/unmaxmize of GEdit's window on GNOME 2.15/16.
* Fix for bug 352073: provide "gnome-python with bonobo" hint for
missing dependency. Also provide a note at the end providing a more
obvious message when support for BrlTTY/BrlAPI cannot be found.
* Fix for bug 351847: add defensive code in the event the AT-SPI
implementation gives us a cycle when looking at the
RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF relation.
* Fix for bug 349465: take some defensive actions in the event that
the AT-SPI implementation has implemented getTextAtOffset incorrectly
(i.e., it gives back garbage for offsets).
* Fix for bug 350218: GtkDemo Editable cells tree demo no longer
speaks both cells in a row
* Fix for bug 350294: Eliminate TypeError in _initGUIState in GUI prefs.
* Fix for bug 350212: Improve speaking of Spin Button changes.
* New/Updated Translations (Thanks!):
Catalan: Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó (NEW)
Chinese: (Traditional Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
Chinese: (Traditional Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
Dutch: Tino Meinen and Vincent van Adrighem
Dzongkha: Guntupalli Karunakar
Finnish: Ilkka Tuohela
German: Hendrik Brandt
Greek: Nikos Charonitakis
Gujarati: Ankit Patel
Japanese: Satoru SATOH (NEW)
Korean: Changwoo Ryu (NEW)
Lithuanian: Žygimantas BeruÄka (NEW)
Macedonian: Jovan Naumovski
Marathi: Rahul Bhalerao (NEW)
Norwegian: (Bokmål) Sigurd Gartmann
Oriya: Subhransu Behera (NEW)
Russian: Nickolay V. Shmyrev (NEW)
Spanish: Francisco Javier F. Serrador
Swedish: Danial Nylander
Ukrainian: Maxim Dziumanenko
Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall
==========
0.2.8 - 06-Aug-2006
* Orca has been approved for inclusion into GNOME 2.16!!! YEAH!
Thanks everyone for your support.
* Many thanks also to the team from Baum for their contributions in
improving the support for the Java platform.
* Much improvement in the reliability and availability department.
Thanks very much to community members for helping test Orca and
provide us with constructive feedback and informative bug reports.
These community members include: Joanmarie Diggs, Al Puzzuoli,
Fco. Javier Dorado MartÃnez, and Cody Hurst.
* Improvements to Yelp access.
* Improvements to Firefox 2 chrome. NOTE: we are targeting Firefox 3
as the means for providing compelling access to web content.
* The main 'orca' executable is now a shell script that launches the
Python process for orca. It includes some utilities to clean up
stray processes and latent support to automatically detect failures
in Orca and restart it if necessary. We will be improving this
script prior to the GNOME 2.16 release. Your testing and feedback
will be helpful!
* Improved support for the emacspeak speech service, including better
ACSS support for DECtalk and overall support for rate/pitch
parameters. Many thanks to Joanmarie Diggs for her contributions to
this space. The community model works!
* Fix for bug 347691: In standard print dialog, printer table items
not always spoken/displayed.
* Fix for bug 345462: Orca should speak changes when moving up a level
in menus.
* Fix for bug 341371: Orca will not report the file name in file
picker when there is only one file existing in current folder.
* Fix for bug 319738: The child routine() needs to be more careful
about indices out of bounds.
* Fix for bug 319660: Exiting learn mode should display current locus
of focus.
* Fix for bug 348980: Get braille cursor routing keys working again.
* Fix for bug where window activated and deactivated events can arrive
out of order. Thanks to Baum for this fix!
* Defensive programming in the event that expected object specializations
(e.g., text, component, selection, etc.) don't exist. Thanks to Baum
for this fix!
* Created orca.desktop to add orca to menu items.
* Migrated to LINGUAS model (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas).
* Added additional testing and debugging utilities. Also added
additional helper lines to ~/.orca/user-settings.py that make
it more convenient to turn on/off various debugging and testing
utilities.
* Pychecker fixes and also eliminated circular imports in the python
modules.
* Additional keystrokes files for testing. We're ramping up our regression
tests and hope to have a more complete set by the GNOME 2.16
release.
* Provide smoother handling of the crosswires and cursor in the
magnifier when tracking the mouse.
* New/Updated Translations (Thanks!):
Latvian: Raivis Dejus
Macedonian: Jovan Naumovski
Dutch: Tino Meinen and Vincent van Adrighem
Gujarati: Ankit Patel
Spanish: Francisco Javier F. Serrador
Greek: Nikos Charonitakis (NEW)
==========
0.2.7 - 24-Jul-2006
* Much work on hangs. It's better, but we still have work to do.
* Vastly improved work with GAIM. Also added Insert+{1,2,3,...} to
allow you to read the last n messages.
* Fix bug 348084 - fail gracefully if speech is not available.
* Handle situations where the label the label for a FILLER or PANEL is
done by placing an unbound label as the first child of the
FILLER/PANEL and the content of the FILLER/PANEL is the second
child.
* Fix bug 348131 - make SayAll perform properly in Evolution.
* Moved the Orca specific keybindings out of the init() routine in
orca.py over to the setupInputEventHandlers and getKeyBindings()
routines in default.py.
* Reworked how Orca handles "no focus." It is much better now.
* Added new keynames for various keys.
* Fixed bug #347228 - correctly identify state of top level item in
some tree tables.
* Improved access to Evolution and StarOffice set up wizards.
* Additional work on access to the Java platform.
* Added in support for numeric keypad 8 double-clicking, which spells
the current line, and numeric keypad 5 double clicking, which spells
the current word.
* Translations:
Latvian: Raivis Dejus
Spanish: Francisco Javier F. Serrador
Gujarati: Ankit Patel
Norwegian: Kjartan Maraas
Dzongkha: Guntupalli Karunakar
Finnish: Ilkka Tuohela
Bulgarian: Alexander Shopov
Bengali: Runa Bhattacharjee
Macedonian: Jovan Naumovski
Hindi: Rajesh Ranjan
Dutch: Tino Meinen and Vincent van Adrighem
Welsh: Rhys Jone
Tamil: I. Felix
==========
0.2.6 - 09-Jul-2006
* Addition of verbalized punctuation settings.
* Addition of spoken indentation information for lines.
* Adjustments to brief verbosity settings for speech.
* Additional work on automatic reading of the entire row for a table cell,
which is controlled by the orca.settings.readTableCellRow property.
* Additional work on the StarOffice script to better support
configuration wizards.
* Additional work on Evolution to better support configuration wizards.
* Very preliminary support for the Java platform.
* Moved a number of utilities from various places to util.py.
* Moved http server support into its own module. Note that
orca.settings.speechServerPort is now defunct and has been replaced
by orca.settings.httpServerPort.
* Fixes for reading table row and column headers.
* Fix for bug 347054 to allow readTableCellRow and speechVerbosityLevel
settings to be set properly from the configuration GUI.
* Fix for bug 343897 to allow configuration GUI to pop to top when it
is shown. This requires a more recent version of PyGTK (2.9.3) to work.
* Fix for bug 341388 to stop speech for an object when its window loses focus.
* Fixes for bug 343133 to do defensive programming in flat review to
help prevent hangs.
* Fix for bug 345472 to not assume the last input event was a keyboard event.
* More work on bug 319652 to reduce even more hangs.
* Fix for bug 344880 - process command line arguments even if a11y is not
enabled.
* Updates to the style guide.
* Translations to date (many thanks!):
Bengali: Runa Bhattacharjee
British: David Lodge and Gareth Owen
Bulgarian: Alexander Shopov
Canadian: Adam Weinberger
Chinese: (Simplified) Funda Wang
Czech: Miloslav Trmac
Dutch: Tino Meinen, Taco Witte, Elros Cyriatan,
and Vincent van Adrighem
Dzongkha: Guntupalli Karunakar
Finnish: Ilkka Tuohela
French: Christophe Merlet
German: Hendrik Brandt
Gujarati: Ankit Patel
Hindi: Rajesh Ranjan
Italian: Alessio Frusciante
Kinyarwanda: Steve Murphy
Macedonian: Jovan Naumovski
Nepali: Pawan Chitrakar
Portuguese: (Brazilian) Raphael Higino, Gustavo Noronha Silva,
and Estêvão Samuel Procópio
Serbian: Danilo Å egan
Spanish: Francisco Javier F. Serrador
Swedish: Christian Rose
Tamil: I. Felix
Ukrainian: Maxim Dziumanenko
Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall
Welsh: Rhys Jones
==========
0.2.5 - 11-Jun-2006
* Re-map keyboard bindings and add additional keyboard bindings.
See http://live.gnome.org/Orca/KeyboardCommands for the list.
* Improvements to StarOffice support to provide better access to text
documents and spreadsheets. Also get rid of spurious "0.00" text
that was showing up in braille for StarOffice buttons.
* Addition of announcing text selection as it is selected and unselected.
* Generalize the "read table cell row" functionality. If you press
Insert+F11, it will toggle the feature to read the entire row of
a table or just the selected table cell when you move from row to row.
* Improved support for SayAll of text objects (SayAll for flat review
is still on the to do list).
* Addition of self-voicing module to tell Orca to be quiet when a
self-voicing application is present.
* Addition of ability to turn Orca into a speech server that can
accessed via simple HTTP commands (default port is 20433, but this
is customizable via orca.settings.speechServerPort). This will
allow self-voicing applications to use Orca for their speech, thus
letting them get the user's speech settings preferences.
* Addition of orca.settings.enableBrailleGrouping (default=False).
NOTE: this represents a change in the UI for Orca - the behavior to
date has been to always group menu items on the braille display.
The system responsiveness was bad for large menus, however, so we
decided to make this an optional feature turned off by default.
* Addition of utility to report information on the currently active
script. This is primarily for helping script writers do debugging
and is accessed by pressing Insert+F3.
* Addition of orca.settings.cacheAccessibles (default=True) as a
means to turn the local caching of accessible objects on or off.
This is primarily an orca developer debugging feature.
* Fix for bug 344218 - gnome-terminal would not be presented properly
if it was started after Orca.
* Fix for bug 343666: pressing buttons on braille displays could cause
a hang.
* Partial fix for bug 342022 - provide some defensive mechanisms to help
prevent some hangs.
* Fix for bug 343133 - do not hang when doing a flat-review of a man
page in gnome-terminal.
* Fix for bug #343013 - the command line option strings should not be
translatable.
* Partial fix for bug 319652 - become a better Python thread citizen
to help reduce hangs.
* Fix for bug 342303 - stop speech when the user presses the mouse button.
* Fix for bug 342122 - use all labels for an object when presenting
an object.
* Fix for bug 342133 - do not read all labels in gnome-window-properties
application when it appears.
* Fix for bug 341415 - when moving between workspaces with metacity,
eliminate redundant output and also make sure workspace names are
announced.
* Refactor of various modules to move script writing utilities into
util.py.
* More fleshing out of the test plan.
==========
0.2.4 - 15-May-2006
* Addition of text and GUI preferences configuration tools.
NOTE: 0.2.4 eliminates orca-setup and replaces it with the
"--setup" (GUI or text, depending upon your environment),
"--gui-setup" (GUI), "--text-setup" (text), "--no-setup"
(bypass any automatic setup mechanism - useful for running
with gdm accessible login) command line options to the
"orca" command. You can also bring up the GUI while orca
is running by pressing Insert+space.
WARNING: 0.2.4 also introduces an incompatible change to
the configuration file and requires you to "rm -rf ~/.orca"
and rerun orca setup.
* Fix for bug 340662 - do not require the desktop to be running
to set up orca preferences.
* Addition of support for magnification similar to that in
Gnopernicus.
* Fix for bug 331512 - addition of key and word echo. We need
community feedback on this.
* Work on specifying the external dependencies for building
and running Orca.
* Fix for bug where metacity workspaces (accessed via
Ctrl+Alt+Arrow) were being announced as inaccessible.
* Work on dealing with the Java platform giving us
CORBA::Unknown objects instead of Bonobo::Unknown objects.
Java platform support, however, still has a long way to go.
* Work on coping with CORBA COMM_FAILURES a little better.
* Fix for bug 338097 - better support for the "planner"
application.
* Work for bug 338890 - add ""--version" option to orca to
output the version. Orca also now uses the getopt facility
to get command line options.
* Fix for bug 340773 - focus events were interrupting the
automatic reading of dialog boxes.
* Fix for bug 340625 - better handling of table cells.
* Fix for bugs 340559, 337371 - reduce repetitive output of
slider values.
* Fix for bug 319732 - move .label logic from atspi.spi to
something that can be more easily overridden by scripts.
* Fix for bug 340481 - combo box updates were not being
handled correctly.
* Fix for bug 340305 - combo box labels were not being presented.
* Fix for bug 340556 - radio button group names were not being
presented.
* Fix for bug 338839 - allow speech to be enabled/disabled using
Insert+s.
* Fix for bug 339932 - shutdown orca better on Ctrl+C from
the command line.
* Fix for bug 339927 - use floating point values for speech
rate, gain, and pitch to provide finer granularity of settings.
* Fix for bug 341415 - attempt to listen for AT-SPI events and
present accessible information even if no accessible windows
are active when orca starts.
* Work on bug 340849 - automatically enable desktop accessibility
if needed and remind the user to log out and log back in for
this to take effect.
* Additions to and development of the test plan.
==========
0.2.3 - 22-Apr-2006
* Many changes to the way settings are handled, including allowing them
to be dynamically reloaded at run time.
* Nascent support for configuration GUI (still needs work).
* First pass at key and word echo (still needs work).
* Added support for ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py, a file that will
not be overwritten, but will also be loaded if it exists.
* New settings.orcaModifierKeys setting to allow the user to specify
which key(s) are to be used as the Orca modifier key.
* Refactor of script.py to include methods for getKeyBindings,
getBrailleBindings, getInputEventHandlers, and getListeners to make it
easier for subclasses to override these things.
* Provide support to allow a script on a toolkit basis versus just being on
a per app basis.
* Fixed the way localized files were being found and used.
* Reduced repetitive verbosity.
* Reincorporated nascent support for magnification (still needs work).
* Updates to the requirements document.
* Make metacity script recognize apps started after Orca was started.
* New script for planner.
* Better handling of spell checking in StarOffice, Evolution, and GEdit.
* More reliable synchronization of local Accessible cache.
* Fixes for bugs 338687, 334294, 319643, 319789, 330631, 319651,
339690, 334893, 338240, 337857, 337704, 337709, 337489, 337322,
336648, 330487.
==========
0.2.2 - 17-Mar-2006
* CSUN release - the bits we plan to show at CSUN '06.
* Add output of text attributes at caret - press Insert+f (Rich Burridge)
* Pre-filter TTS strings to prevent them from being interpreted as commands
by DECtalk (Willie Walker)
* Default to using BrlTTY if it is available (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 333168: scripts were not being reclaimed (Willie Walker)
* Add extra KeySyms to account for Solaris keyboard layouts (Willie Walker)
* Beginning of util.py for common script utilities (Rich Burridge and
Willie Walker)
* Fix for speechgenerator._getSpeechForTableCell (Rich Burridge)
* More work on Evolution script (Rich Burridge)
* Work on StarOffice script, including spell checking (Rich Burridge)
* Fix for bug 333765 to allow Orca to better clean up when shutting
down under adverse conditions (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 333792 and also provide better fallback for broken
speech drivers (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 333915 to transform unicode ellipses into "..." (Willie Walker)
* Use window manager struts for braille monitor and also adapt better to
dynamic changes in size (e.g., themes using larger fonts)
* Provide better support for accessible login via gdmlogin.
* A little more work on the Firefox script, but Firefox/Orca are still
not ready for prime time (Willie Walker)
==========
0.2.1 - 22-Feb-2006
* *Much* work on Evolution script - this far outshadows much of the
other work done for this release (Rich Burridge and Mike Pedersen)
* Various code cleanup (Willie Walker and Rich Burridge)
* Introduction of prototype testing harness (Willie Walker)
* Creation of bugs/* to keep track of external bug dependencies (team)
* Additional debug features (Willie Walker):
> Insert+Ctrl+F5 - cycle through debug levels
> Insert+F7 - print ancestry for locus of focus
> Insert+Ctrl+F7 - print entire application hierarchy for app with locus
of focus
* Minor enhancement to flat review to attempt to better handle parents
that manage a very large number of descendants (Willie Walker)
* Take better care when installing on 64-bit platforms (Willie Walker)
* Fix gaim.py to better handle text areas (bug 325917) (Willie Walker)
* Support ABI incompatible change made to AT-SPI 1.7.0 (Willie Walker)
* Use EventDetails.host_application if it is available (Willie Walker)
* Internationalize script mappings.
* Some work with OOo and its new UNO<->ATK bridge (Willie Walker)
* Allow scripts to be picked up from . directory where orca is run
(Willie Walker).
* Added braille monitor - add useBrailleMonitor=True to
~/.orca/user-settings.py to enable it (Willie Walker)
* Many localizations also performed by a number of very enthusiastic
folks: Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Adam Weinberger, Clytie Siddall
* Add Insert+s option to manually tell speech to reset should something
go awry (Willie Walker)
* Add KP_Insert as an equivalent of Insert for the Orca modifier.
(Willie Walker)
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0.2.0 - 29-Nov-2005
* Many many changes: new scripting architecture; better support for
speech and braille; decent support for GTK applications; flat review
mode.
* Many localizations also performed by a number of very enthusiastic
folks: Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Pawan Chitrakar, Adam Weinberger,
Maxim Dziumanenko, Hendrik Brandt, David Lodge, Raphael Higino, Steve
Murphy, Miloslav Trmac, Christian Rose, Alessio Frusciante, Aldo
Giambelluca, Vincent van Adrighem, Danilo Segan, Ankit Patel, Estêvão
Samuel Procópio, Christophe Merlet, Cedric Corazza, Gustavo Noronha
Silva, Funda Wang, Gareth Owen, and Duarte Loreto.
==========
0.1.0 - 25-Jun-2004
* Changed scripting model -- scripts are now always all loaded at once
and the Orca event processor decides which script should receive which
events
==========
0.0.13 - 10-Jun-2004
* Added spec file
* Sorted out packaging issues
* Fixed automatic dialog reading
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