2.26.3 - 29-Jun-2009
General:
* 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 #586890 - Orca 2.27.3 and earlier will crash if liblouis
1.6.2 python bindings are installed
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bug #583811 - Doing a select all in OOo Writer causes Orca
to say "selected" for each paragraph
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #584837 - Find dialog fails to move caret to desired
location in Thunderbird
* Fix for bug #568658 - Sometimes Orca announces the wrong subject in
Thunderbird. This change causes us to dump the pyatspi cache if
we're in Thunderbird and exit flat review. As a result, we should
not have bogus table data hanging around.
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
cs Czech Lucas Lommer
Shared directories can now be created independently by the pacakges
needing them and will be removed automatically by pkg_delete when empty.
Packages needing empty directories can use the @pkgdir command in PLIST.
Discussed and ok'd in thread starting at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2009/06/30/msg003546.html
2.26.2 - 18-May-2009
General:
* 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 #577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find"
in Gedit.
* Fix for bug #580329 - Use show_uri() to display help window.
* Fix for bug #580423 - Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency. Use
DBus org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout instead of
gnome.ui.master_client().request_save.
* Fix for bug #582684 - Arrowing left/right across tree tables causes
whole row to be spoken.
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New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
2.26.1 - 13-Apr-2009
General:
* Fix for bug #575921 - When I working with the gcalctool application,
Orca says too lot of the result of the mathematic operations
* Fix for bug #576037 - Bind F1 key to help page
* Fix for bug #576438 - Provide state change information for radio
buttons that require you to press space to select them
* Fix for bug #577330 - Detect whether speech dispatcher is installed
or not
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #577245 - Present paragraph-style information in
OpenOffice
* Fix for bug #578072 - Orca does not always present text attributes
in braille in OOo documents
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #577239 - Cannot navigate by line through multi-line
HTML list items in Firefox/Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is
False
* 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
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
ar Arabic Djihed Afifi
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
cs Czech Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
el Greek Jennie Petoumenou and Kostas Papadimas
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
ml Malayalam Harivishnu and Ani Peter
ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements across the board (over 160
bugs)
* A couple very serious hangs were eliminated.
* Speech pitch, rate, and volume now change on the fly when adjusting
them in the preferences UI.
* Vastly improved support for ARIA in Firefox.
* Improved performance and reliability for flat review.
* New feature to speak MultiCaseStrings as individual words.
* New feature to automatically speak shortcuts (mnemonics).
* Known Problems:
o See the open bugs in the Orca bug database. We not only track
Orca bugs in the Orca bug database, we also track bugs in other
components that affect Orca's ability to provide good access to
them.
o Compiz is still not fully accessibility friendly at this point
in time. We recommend you stick with Metacity until the Compiz
kinks are worked out. If you're using Compiz and want to switch
to Metacity, you can run the following command:
metacity --replace.
2.24.4 - 18-Feb-2008
General:
* Fix for bug #553678 - orca can act badly at login time. This was a
bad one where pressing Ctrl+s to invoked Orca in speech mode after
pressing Ctrl+m to invoke Orca with the magnifier would cause the
magnifier to freeze in one spot.
* Fix for bug #561548 - Orca locks up when closing some Pidgin
conversations. Also helps with bug #567864. This was a very bad
hang that several people reported on the Orca list.
* Fix for bug #568589 - braillegenerator adding image string versus
braille.Component for table cells. This was exposed after the
OpenSolaris packagemanager made changes to add accessible names for
images in the package list. Prior to the fix for bug #568589, Orca
would go silent in the revised packagemanager list.
* Fix for bug #568751 - Interaction with the punctuation preferences
can cause a hang. This was another bad hang reported on the Orca
list.
* Fix for bug #568875 - Pressing "Apply" button in preferences dialog
causes autostart option to be checked. This caused some users much
confusion.
* Fix for bug #569343 - Speaking of indentation is misleading. Users
deemed this to be misleading enough that they wanted this fixed for
2.24.4 (i.e., they didn't want to wait for 2.26.0).
* Part of fix for bug #570387 - Clean up the speech tab of the
preferences UI. This causes Page Up and Page Down to work on the
hscales. Before this, only the arrow keys worked, which could
require users to arrow 1 unit at a time across a 100 unit scale.
* Fix for bug #572294 - Need a sanity check in the default script's
locusOfFocusChanged. This would cause Thunderbird to go quiet and
also cause Orca to consume normal typing keys that it should not
consume.
Evolution:
* Fix for bug #567428 -"readonly text" spoken when caret changes line.
This was a big usability issue.
* Fix for bug #570390 - Spellcheck in evolution is badly broken.
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bug #537303 - Certain FF3 add-ons interfere with Orca's
ability to provide access to content.
* Fix for bug #567864 - Orca stops responding when flat review is used
in thunderbird message window and message is closed. This was a
very bad hang reported by several users on the Orca list.
* Fix for bug #567984 - Structural navigation needs to consider text
within the document frame.
* 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 #568768 - Orca starts at the top of a newly-loaded page
rather than the specified fragment. This was a very bad usability
problem when navigating across web pages.
* Fix for bug #552965 - (ARIA) aria-valuetext ignored
* Fix for bug #555540 - (ARIA) Add support for additional landmark roles.
* Fix for bug #568467 - (ARIA) aria-describedby text spoken twice via
Where Am I
* Fix for bug #568550 - (ARIA) Add default keybindings for navigating by
landmarks
* Fix for bug #569346 - (ARIA) No speech for image-only ARIA buttons
and ARIA menu items
* Fix for bug #569835 - (ARIA) Orca should support the ARIA haspopup
attribute
* Fix for bug #570551 - (ARIA) UIUC Number Guessing Game Alert Dialog
not presented when it appears.
* Fix for bug #570524 - (ARIA) Issues with Dojo combo box interaction.
* Fix for bug #570532 - (ARIA) Alert text not brailled when navigating
it.
* Work on bug #571058 - (ARIA) Orca's caret navigation is kicking in
when it shouldn't be.
2.24.3 - 12-Jan-2008
General:
* Re-fix for bug #354479 - Automatic presentation of "balloon" type
messages.
* The rest of the fix for bug #551891 - Flat review does not always
start in the correct place when focus is in a tree table.
* Fix for bug #562877 - account for pronunciation dictionary
when speech-dispatcher backend is used
* Fix for bug #563171 - src/orca/flat_review.py:getZonesFromText
should clip zones based on what text is visible
* Fix for bug #564994 - Drop eel dependency
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #562532 - When using Openoffice.org Spreadsheet with
Orca, the cell coordinates are not spoken for all locales.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #563502 - Need to map "Shiretoko" to the Mozilla
script.
* 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.
* 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.
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
2.24.2 - 24-Nov-2008
General:
* More work on bug #508675 - Applying change in Orca preference dialog
is a little bit slow. This fix makes things even faster.
* Fix for bug #551891 - Flat review does not always start in
the correct place when focus is in a tree table.
* Refix for bug #552344 - tutorial message for desktop not spoken.
* Fix for bug #554002 - Orca App-Preferences dialog page tabs are
"off" by one in speech and braille.
* Fix for bug #556470 - Orca should not land on empty (cell-less)
tables when using structural navigation by table.
* Fix for bug #561540 - Traceback in default.py onStateChanged.
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #357545 - Orca does not speak all buttons in openoffice
database table creation wizard.
* Fix for bug #556657 - Orca is rather chatty when focus is given to
an OOo list whose parent is a combo box.
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.
* 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 #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
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
de German Simon Bienlien and Jochen Skulj
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
si Sinhala Danishka Navin
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
Lots of "Fix for bug #..." and translation update entries removed.
2.24.1 - 15-Oct-2008
2.24.0 - 21-Sep-2008
2.23.92 - 08-Sep-2008
2.23.91 - 01-Sep-2008
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
2.23.6 - 04-Aug-2008
2.23.5 - 21-Jul-2008
2.23.4 - 16-Jun-2008
2.23.3 - 02-Jun-2008
2.23.2 - 12-May-2008
2.23.1 - 21-Apr-2008
2.21.92 - 25-Feb-2008
2.21.91 - 11-Feb-2008
2.21.90 - 28-Jan-2008
2.21.5 - 14-Jan-2008
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.
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.
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.
2.21.2 - 12-Nov-2007
2.21.1 - 28-Oct-2007
2.21.0 - 03-Oct-2007
- assume that Python 2.4 and 2.5 are compatible and allow checking for
fallout.
- remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_COMPATIBLE that are obsoleted by the 2.3+
default. Modify the others to deal with the removals.
