[Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.24.0]

[Willie Walker]

FYI...Orca v2.24.0 went out today.  Phew.  This was a busy release with
over 600 bugs and enhancements addressed.  Sorry we didn't get to them
all this time, but we certainly got to a lot of them.  :-)

Additional information on the GNOME v2.24.x follow on releases is
available at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree.

Will

===============
* What is Orca?
===============

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that
provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca 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.

The Orca v2.24.0 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.24.0 release and
requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.24.0.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.24.0?
==================================

2.24.0 - 22-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

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* Where can I get it?
=====================

You can obtain Orca v2.24.0 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.24/orca-2.24.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.24/orca-2.24.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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