Announcing Orca v2.29.1

[Willie Walker]

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* What is Orca?
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that
provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca development
has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office
via continued engagement with its end users and generous contributions
from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members.

You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.29.1?
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These changes reflect changes made on the master branch since we
branched for GNOME 2.28.

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 Leszczyński
     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 Urbančič
     uk     Ukrainian     Maxim V. Dziumanenko
     zh_HK     Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao
     zh_TW     Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.29.1 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.1.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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