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45.2 - 6 January 2024
Web:
* Fix bug causing us to get stuck in menu bar during caret navigation.
General:
* Dump our cached information in response to children-changed events
so that we do not present stale information.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
fa Persian Sina Aghighi
fr French Guillaume Bernard
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Alex Jr
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
=========
45.1 - 6 October 2023
Web:
* Fix regression in bookmark support.
* Fix bug causing Orca to present some custom widgets as an image.
General:
* Fix bug causing Orca to ignore objects that are valid because they
had been defunct/invalid before.
* Fix bug causing rewind and fast-forward in SayAll to fail.
* Fix chattiness issue in mate-panel.
* Only examine descriptions by default in isSameObject for Gtk apps
for performance reasons.
* Use AXObject.is_dead instead of the script utility for performance
reasons.
* Revert "Don't let brlapi crash us". This change was a workaround
put in place to give distros enough time to get the fixed brltty,
but it had a slight performance impact if braille was enabled but
not being used.
* Stop using deprecated Gtk API in the accessible actions menu.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
eo Esperanto Kristjan SCHMIDT
=========
45.0 - 15 September 2023
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
cs Czech Daniel Rusek
da Danish Alan Mortensen
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
45.rc - 5 September 2023
Bug Fixes:
* Fix several performance issues
* Fix bug causing utterances to be split up unexpectedly
* Filter out redundant descriptions to reduce chattiness
* Fix tracebacks resulting from hand-editing user-settings.conf
* Fix speech getting cut off when focus changes away from checkable
item
* Fix Orca failing to say "command not found" label in gnome-shell's
run dialog
* Fix presentation of Qt tree cells with toggle action
* Improve logic when suspending events
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Vasil Pupkin
da Danish Alan Mortensen
de German Jürgen Benvenuti
de German Philipp Kiemle
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fa Persian Danial Behzadi
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pa Punjabi Amn Alam
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
ru Russian Artur S0
ru Russian Sergej A
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
=========
45.beta2 (née 45.gamma) - 15 August 2023
Distros should read the following:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/psa-for-distros-brltty-should-be-built-using-cython-0-29-x-not-cython-3
Bug Fix:
* Do not crash when BrlApi.Connection() crashes as a consequence of
BrlTTY having been built with Cython 3.
=========
45.beta - 14 August 2023
Bug Fixes:
* Use importlib instead of imp. This is needed for Orca to work in
Python 3.12
* Fix regression in flat review braille panning
* Fix presentation of Calc selected cells
* Fix the "screen reader on" message getting cut off
* Treat LibreOffice as not supporting AtspiCollection (otherwise it can
become non-responsive)
Feature Changes:
* Change the default button in the list-of dialogs from "jump to" to
"activate"
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
45.alpha - 5 August 2023
NOTE: A beta release will follow in a few days, hopefully including all
of the translations that are in master but never made it to the gnome-45
branch.
New and Modified Features:
* Object Navigator: This allows the user to navigate through a hierarchy
of UI objects. Bindings:
- Ctrl+Orca+Up/Down for navigating between parent/child
- Ctrl+Orca+Left/Right for navigating among siblings
- Ctrl+Orca+Return for performing a click
- Ctrl+Orca+S to toggle the simplification of the object hierarchy
* Flat Review can now by restricted to the current object of interest to
eliminate "noise" from irrelevant objects.
Binding: Currently unbound
* Flat Review now has a command that displays the entire contents being
reviewed in an editable text view, making it easier to copy and paste
the contents of terminals, dialogs, etc.
Binding: Currently unbound
* Action Presenter: A popup menu for performing accessible actions on an
object, such as click, expand/collapse, press. This should make it
easier to interact with applications with poor keyboard navigability.
Binding: Orca+Shift+A
* The Notification List feature was re-written. It now uses an actual
Gtk list rather than an off-screen one. The review announcements now
include a timestamp and the dialog allows you to clear the history.
* Preferences Dialog and Shortcuts List are now grouped based on feature,
making it far easier to discover and bind/rebind commands of interest.
* The Structural Navigation command to navigate among form fields was
remapped from Orca+Tab/Orca+Shift+Tab to F/Shift+F. A new command was
also added to navigate among iframes, which is currently unbound.
* Added a command to present the default button. Binding: Orca+E.
* Modify Orca's left-click functionality to prefer actions which are
associated with performing a left click (e.g. click, press, jump,
open) and only attempt to synthesize a click as a last resort.
Bug Fixes and Other Improvements:
* Added the ability to temporarily suspend registration for accessibility
events which can greatly improve performance at times event floods are
likely, such as window creation/destruction and activation/deactivation.
* Started preferring AtspiCollection over child iteration to locate
descendants in the accessibility tree. The performance improvement can
be up to 10 times faster. We will continue making changes in this area
between now and the stable release.
* Started relying on speech-dispatcher for character presentation rather
than our own character names dictionary, which we were not always using.
This should cause Orca to always speak the character name in the same
way.
* Interrupt speech conditionally on focus changes. This is needed for
Gtk 4 on Wayland because we currently do not get notifications for
input events, which had been our most reliable hint to interrupt speech.
The heuristics to identify when we should not interrupt speech are
still being refined, but hopefully this will make the user experience
a bit more tolerable until a solution is agreed upon and implemented.
See https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1046 for more
information.
* A number of improvements to reduce some lagginess and chattiness in
certain web apps.
* Added logic to filter out windows which claim to be active but really
aren't, including descendants of mutter-x11-frames, the desktop frame
of some window environments, and certain Electron apps.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
it Italian Gianvito Cavasoli
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
=========
44.1 - 25 May 2023
Web:
* Support aria-disabled on application, tab, group, and focusable
separator/splitter
* Fix bug in identification of inline iframes
General:
* Improve performance by checking for duplicate object events
* Filter duplicate events when checking for double presses of the
orca modifier
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
it Italian Gianvito Cavasoli
=========
44.0 - 24 March 2023
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Alan Mortensen
fr French Guillaume Bernard
=========
44.rc - 8 March 2023
General:
* Fix double-presentation of indentation information
* Interrupt speech immediately prior to speaking "screen reader off"
* Add command-line Orca modifier documentation
* Fix issue when using the new AT-SPI device API
Web:
* Fix jumping in sites caused by ARIA selection-changed events
* Fix incorrect browsing in Firefox when popup has focus
* Fix double-presentation of content in ARIA's tab role
* Fix structural navigation commands sometimes failing to work after
script reactivation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ab Abkhazian Nart Tlisha
de German Jürgen Benvenuti
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
43.1 - 3 January 2023
General:
* Clean up and fix bugs in flat review find
* Treat KP_Delete as Delete for the purpose of identifying text deletions
* Fix several issues related to prefering the TableCell interface
* Fix presentation of name-changed events for Qt push buttons
Web:
* Fix repetition of text elements during SayAll in web content
* Fix structural navigation bug impacting columns spanning multiple cells
* Fix chattiness issue with browser page tabs
* Fix bug causing Orca to present a non-active page in Chrome
Mouse Review:
* Do not re-present the whole paragraph when leaving a link
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ab Abkhazian Nart Tlisha
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
=========
43.0 - 23 September 2022
General:
* Prevent double-presentation of notifications
* Fix presentation of Nautilus items for Gtk 4
* Fix bug causing the wrong voice to be used
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
da Danish Alan Mortensen
fr French Charles Monzat
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leônidas Araújo
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
43.beta - 29 August 2022
Web:
* Fix issue causing Orca to remain silent with autofocused inputs
* Prevent structural navigation exiting current modal dialog
* Make cell ancestor presentation optional
General:
* Fix issue causing the description to not be presented
* Fix several popup menu-related issues
* Fix issue causing certain static text in dialogs to not be presented
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ab Abkhazian Nart Tlisha
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Jürgen Benvenuti
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sr Serbian Марко Костић
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
zh_CN Chinese (China) Luming Zh
=========
43.alpha - 1 July 2022
Web:
* Fix several issues relating to presentation of navigation among
focusable descendants within ARIA grids and tables
* Improve support for description lists
* Improve presentation of articles in feeds
* Improve presentation of unknown setsize and row/column count
* Fix several "chattiness" issues related to ARIA widgets
* Fix SayAll presentation of time element inside link
* Fix presentation of the FluentUI react dialog (and any other
dialog which has an ARIA document-role descendant
* Improve performance in large rich-text editors
* Include focusable elements with clickancestor action in the
list of "clickables"
WebKitGtk:
* Fix issue causing WebKitGtk 2.36 content to not be handled by Orca's
webkit support
* Fail gracefully when structural navigation commands are used in
WebKitGtk 2.36.x (the collection interface won't be supported
until 2.26.4)
General:
* Add more event-flood handling to improve performance in general,
but especially for gnome-shell
* Fix bug related to which script responded to a mouse-button event
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Alan Mortensen
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Mario Blättermann
de German Philipp Kiemle
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fa Persian Danial Behzadi
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Charles Monzat
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
it Italian Milo Casagrande
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
oc Occitan Quentin PAGÈS
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leônidas Araújo
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Matheus Barbosa
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
ru Russian Aleksandr Melman
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
sv Swedish Luna Jernberg
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
zh_CN Chinese (China) Luming Zh
=========
42.0 - 22 March 2022
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Philipp Kiemle
it Italian Milo Casagrande
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
=========
42.rc - 11 March 2022
Web:
* Improve behavior during event flood of table-related events from
web apps
* Fix bug causing us to ignore a newly-loaded document due to it
having a bogus index in parent
LibreOffice:
* Fix bug causing lines with embedded objects to not be spoken
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Alan Mortensen
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Matheus Barbosa
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
ru Russian Aleksandr Melman
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sv Swedish Luna Jernberg
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
zh_CN Chinese (China) Luming Zh
=========
42.beta - 15 February 2022
Web:
* Fix several bugs in which we update our location silently when we
should instead announce it
* Improve behavior during event flood of text-related events from
web apps
* Attempt to work around object destruction during structural nav
* Improve behavior of label ancestors of widgets
General:
* Fix bug causing accessing preferences to fail for esperanto
* Handle apps going defunct during cleanup; more debugging
* Handle exception when object is destroyed while getting text attributes
* Try to handle error from mate-notification-daemon during window:create
* Improve performance in gnome-shell
* Improve presentation of all text becoming unselected during caret
navigation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Alan Mortensen
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Mario Blättermann
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Charles Monzat
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
it Italian Milo Casagrande
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
oc Occitan Quentin PAGÈS
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leônidas Araújo
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
ru Russian Aleksandr Melman
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
41.1 - 1 December 2021
Web:
* Fix presentation of selected items in datalist
* Fix issue causing non-rendered headings being combined with
other, rendered elements when presenting line contents
* Improve behavior when focused back/forward button is pressed
* Improve presentation of subscript and superscript elements
(requires implementations exposing the associated AT-SPI2
roles)
* Attempt to identify and present custom-element images
* Fix SayAll for rich-text editors
* Treat all list items inside listboxes as focus mode widgets
regardless of authoring
* Clear cached objects when not dumping full cache for child change
to prevent skipping over newly-added content
* Fix speech generator for browser alerts
* Fix issues causing certain spin buttons to not be presented correctly
General:
* Modify collections module import for Python3.10 compatibility
* Event Manager: Handle name/description change floods
* Adjust string for repeats when presenting text changes
* Clear flat review context when page tab lists emit selection-changed
to eliminate stale context (e.g. in a wizard)
* Improve presentation of indeterminate progress bars (busy indicators)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ru Russian Aleksandr Melman
=========
41.0 - 16 September 2021
General:
* Fix compatibility with Python 3.10
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Alan Mortensen
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish (markup fix) Andre Klapper
=========
41.rc - 4 September 2021
Web:
* Fix several issues related to empty but "focusable" ARIA
tooltips
* Identify and work around (when possible) mismatched text and
hypertext implementations that can lead to looping inside
content
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
41.beta - 24 August 2021
General:
* Use new AT-SPI device API for keyboard monitoring when available
LibreOffice:
* Fix bug causing Orca to become silent due to setting locusOfFocus
to a defunct object
* Work around missing focus event for Calc spreadsheet which causes
Orca to ignore subsequent events
Speech:
* Do not set voice name when it is the default
=========
41.alpha - 12 July 2021
General:
* Improve handling of accessible-event floods from apps
* Fix bug in announcing selected items in icon views
Web:
* Improve recovery from destruction of current object
* Improve performance in response to caret-moved events
* Fix crash resulting from subtree becoming hidden
* Fix bug in toolbar browse-mode navigation
* Fix bug causing a live region event to be ignored
* Fix bug causing us to incorrectly switch to browse mode in VSCode
* Ensure we present caret-moved events after Alt+Tabbing into web app
* Don't repeat posinset and setsize for multi-line list items
* Don't announce unselected state of grid cells/rows in browse mode
* Don't announce row and column count when they are both 0
* Fix braille presentation of grid cell in browse mode
* Improve browse-mode navigation of trees and tree tables
* Eliminate some chattiness entering elements with a caption
* Prevent double-presentation of description for alerts
Email:
* Fix regression presenting plain-text messages in Thunderbird
* Work around missing events from Evolution Add Accounts
LibreOffice:
* Work around missing state-changed:focused event that caused
caret-moved events in documents to be ignored
Speech:
* Ensure we enable/disable speech based on app-specific settings
* punctuation: Spell left/right_double_angle at level "most"
* Do not add mark within numbers (some synthesizers present numbers
incorrectly otherwise)
* Do not set language if it is empty (breaks output in older versions
of speech-dispatcher)
Mouse Review:
* Check if we have Wnck in activate() so we don't spew errors
* Gracefully handle lack of pointer
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Charles Monzat
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
oc Occitan Quentin PAGÈS
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
40.0 - 19 March 2021
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
it Italian Milo Casagrande
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
40.rc - 11 March 2021
Web:
* Improve handling of, and recovery from, element destruction, e.g.
to find the new location and contents more accurately and quickly
* Don't generate line contents when tabbing into editable with
descendants (chattiness)
General:
* Prevent hang generating statusbar content
* Prevent hang resulting from accessible objects which claim to be
their own parent
* Try to detect and avoid selection-changed event flood from apps
like Caja which can make Orca not responsive
* Work around lack of children-changed accessibility events from
fillers which report 0 children
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Mario Blättermann
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
=========
40.beta - 22 February 2021
Web:
* Add initial support for aria-braillelabel and aria-brailleroledescription
* Add option to control automatic focus mode during native navigation
* Improve presentation of, and fix bugs related to, offscreen text
which is exposed to us as one or two characters per line
* Make more roles descendable in browse mode to improve content in
which use ARIA widget roles are applied without any associated
keyboard navigation
* Fix bugs in which we get stuck or skip an element due to stale cache
* Prevent getting stuck when up arrowing with multiple newline chars
* Don't collapse newlines from a single text object into one line
* Respect speakBlankLines setting
* Ensure figcaptions and descendants are presented only once
* Fix issue in which caret-moved events preceding focus events cause
Orca to not present a newly-focused entry
* Use posinset and setsize attributes for menus, even in browser gui
* Eliminate double-presentation of caption children in SayAll
* Work harder to turn inaccessible links into something presentable
* Prevent focus mode from being entered if we're in SayAll
* Fix presentation of table row when caret moves due to mouse click
* Ensure we say something when using caret nav to interrupt SayAll
* Skip useless empty elements when seeking first context in document
* Fall back on gridcell name when generating name for nameless checkboxes
* Miscellaneous chattiness fixes
Chromium:
* Work around bogus/misleading selected state in browser menus
* Fix chattiness issue arrowing up/down in Omnibox popup
* Fix bogus presentation of posinset and setsize in popup menus
Braille:
* Attempt to be smarter about the default contraction table, prefering
the current locale and literary braille tables
* Fix bug in presentation of tree items
General:
* Fix Orca not launching due to braille-related timeout
* Use AT-SPI2's cache for children (improves performance)
* Improve presentation of native-app navigation by word
* Fix issue preventing us from recognizing a Tab input event
* Announce "non selected" when focus does not follow selected in a listbox
* Only speak newline during word nav if spoken indentation is enabled
* Handle exception initializing mouse review with null display
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Christian Kirbach
de German Tim Sabsch
en_GB British English Stephan Woidowski
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
fr French Charles Monzat
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hr Croatian Goran Vidović
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Henrique Machado Campos
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
pt Portuguese Juliano Camargo
ro Romanian Florentina Mușat
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
3.38.2 - 22 December 2020
General:
* Don't treat unknown coordinates as definitely off-screen. Should
fix the problem seen with flat review resulting from a change in
Gtk+ 3.24.24
=========
3.38.1 - 3 December 2020
Web:
* Fix crash when generating speech for childless math element
General:
* Fix bug causing the new radio button group to not be presented
when the group was first entered
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
pt Portuguese Juliano de Souza Camargo
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Henrique Machado Campos
=========
3.38.0 - 11 September 2020
Web:
* Don't present aria-placeholder value when it's identical to aria-label
* Fall back on object attributes for absent text attributes
General:
* Add some sanity checks to prevent crashing due to GStreamer failure
* Announce read-only state for checkboxes
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Charles Monzat, Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
3.37.90 - 10 August 2020
Web:
* Announce when rows, columns get reordered due to aria-sort changing
* Fix bug causing some web content to not be presented in flat review
* Fall back on "placeholder" when "placeholder-text" is not used by
browsers
* Fix bug causing presentation of stale content when navigating by word
* Skip over clickable images during line nav if the author has set alt
to ""
* Fix bug causing events from Google Docs to be ignored when a dialog
appears but lacks focus
* Fix false positive causing us to not present self-referential labels
* Fix crash caused by author using aria-labelledby pointing to itself
* Always speak the current line when caret moves due to mouse click
so that presentation is consistent regardless of the element
General:
* Fix bug causing learn mode to not work in (at least) gnome-shell
controls
* Emit mode-changed notifications to inform other tools (magnifiers,
highlighting tools) what mode Orca is in when presenting content
* Miscellaneous tweaks to GUI labels and documentation
* Attempt to reconnect to speech-dispatcher when setting capitalization
style fails due to SSIPCommunicationError
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada, Jordi Mas
de German Tim Sabsch
el Greek Efstathios Iosifidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Charles Monzat
gb British English Zander Brown
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu, Florentina Mușat
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
3.37.2 - 1 June 2020
Web:
* Present aria-sort value when focus moves to sorted row/col header
* Ensure we present functionally-empty entries from web apps
* Make ARIA gridcell cells caret-navigable if browse mode is sticky
* Fix bug causing us to skip over objects in certain grids in browse
mode
* Handle links whose sole content is an image with alt=""
* Force browse mode switch in web apps when child document claims focus
* Don't repeat label, name, or role when in the same object in SayAll
* Improve performance of presenting status bar items for web/Electron
apps (e.g. VSCode)
* Check for "keyshortcuts" attribute also for browser UI
* Eliminate chattiness from Chromium omnibox
* Ensure we present the correct row when navigating to table with
missing rows
* Improve structural navigation in HTML tables with conflicting ARIA
semantics
* Ensure we announce role and content of elements with ARIA's separator
role
* Ensure we verbalize punctuation for named items inside code elements
* Improve heuristic to identify elements serving as fake placeholder
for text
* Use caret-moved event to recover from object destruction
* Prevent Orca from wandering into hidden objects and improve recovery
when the currently-focused object is removed/destroyed
* Improve overall performance processing caret-moved, children-changed,
and text-changed events
* Expand embedded objects for live region text insertions
Mouse Review:
* Fix several chattiness issues
* Fix presentation of nested cells
Braille:
* Ensure blockquote and section text is always displayed
* Ensure focused region starts the display when panToCursor
* Fix bug in word wrap causing us to not display the relevant info
* Fix error using braille with JavaAtkWrapper
* Ensure we update our position when an anchor is clicked on
via braille display
* Hand off Braille output on NoFocus so other screen readers can
provide information
* Correctly display long strings of non-space characters that exceed
the width of the braille line
* Fix several panning issues
* Remove fallback on VT 7
Speech:
* Use punct level 'most' when available in speech-dispatcher
* Insert pause breaks when generating status bar items so they don't
all run together when spoken
General:
* Emit region-changed events to inform other tools (e.g. magnifiers,
highlighting tools) the object and optional text range Orca is
presenting
* Present description change events for the current object
* Fix crash related to non-standard tables
* Work around Qt not exposing STATE_CHECKABLE and/or using
ROLE_CHECK_MENU_ITEM on checkable menu items
* Fix presentation of Qt widgets labelled by their parent
container
* Gracefully handle AT-SPI2 timeout when checking validity of app
* Add support for the Orca key being "sticky"
* Fall back on name for labels which lack displayed text
* Present message when the status bar cannot be found
* Respect user's punctuation settings in app switchers
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ckb Kurdish Sorani Jwtiyar Nariman
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu, Florentina Mușat
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
3.37.1 - 23 April 2020
VSCode:
As a consequence of feature implementation and bug fixes described below
under "Chromium" and "Web," Orca support for VSCode has been improved
significantly. Users are encouraged to test Orca with VSCode Insiders
build, where Microsoft has many accessibility fixes to work with Orca.
Chromium:
* Improve label inference for form fields without author-provided names
* Fix issue causing us to present the previous line in contenteditable
* Fix chattiness issue resulting from failing to consider the prior
object when generating labelOrName
* Fix false positive on identifying list item marker
* Prevent double-speaking of ARIA combobox value
* Don't speak child position for popup menus (it's always 1 of 1)
* Attempt to identify and work around possible missing window events
* Improve responsiveness of text selection in large objects
Web:
* Support navigation within focusable tooltips in web applications
* Update Orca to handle new mappings for ARIA alert and alertdialog
* Add support for new ARIA code role
* Multiple performance improvements to event handling
* Ensure we always present ARIA groups with author-provided names
* Improve behavior navigating in tables in web-based rich-text editors
* Ensure we adjust text for repeated characters even in browse mode
* Fix bug causing us to present stale value information for ARIA
range widgets
* Don't announce returning to browse mode when page is loading
* Don't present load completed or page summary information if we are
in focus mode for a valid object
* Don't present loading message from pages which have no URI (fixes
some chattiness when launching Firefox)
* Ensure more objects with info get presented in flat review
* General improvements for presentation of ARIA comboboxes
* Don't iterate through all children of very complex SVGs (improves
performance)
* Ignore caret-moved events from outside the active grid in focus mode
(fixes chattiness and also incorrectly updating our location)
* Don't infer labels for any web app descendant (names must come from
authors in ARIA apps)
* Ensure we handle selection-change events from web app descendants
* Ensure we present the name of focused web documents
* Update focus when web app descendant claims focus, unless browse mode
is sticky
* Only present comment role when first entering the comment (chattiness)
* Fix bug causing us to not present text which is directly inside a
scroll pane
* Treat treeitems as a whole for the purpose of caret navigation
* Prevent Orca from combining words into a single word in web content
when navigating by word
* Fix several issues related to rich-text editors in web apps
Thunderbird:
* Fix bug causing us to incorrectly update the focused location when
navigating in Settings
Mouse Review:
* Do not announce redundant information when enabling mouse review
* Fix window list the second time mouse review gets enabled
* Fix window detection with more than one workspace
* Ensure we compare the top level document with the active one
* Fix mouse review on some web elements after scrolling
Chat apps:
* Fix false positive with autocompleted text event (causing us to
present membership count changes, e.g. in Pidgin)
General:
* Reduce chattiness from page tab selection events following focus
* Reduce chattiness from text insertions resulting from page tab switch
* Don't re-present the description if the locusOfFocus hasn't changed
* Don't present position in list for comboboxes which lack children
* Fix bug causing us to not present changes in already-focused terminal
when Orca is launched
* Only present the status bar if it is showing and visible (increases
likelihood of Orca finding the right status bar when command to
speak the status bar is given)
* Prevent double-speaking of static text in alerts and other containers
* Speak "alert" role before its name rather than after
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
nl Dutch Justin van Steijn
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
zh_CN Chinese (China) Dz Chen
=========
3.36.1 - 11 March 2020
Web:
* Flush live region messages when interrupting presentation
* Support checkable list items and present unchecked state when item
has checkable state and menu item role
* Handle extraneous elements inside containers which support selection
* Improve handling of live region messages with embedded object chars
and filter out some duplicate messages
=========
3.36.0 - 11 March 2020
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
=========
3.35.92 - 4 March 2020
Chromium:
* Fix presentation of child position for files in Google Drive
* Handle list item markers which lack "::marker" tag
Web:
* Fix presentation of list items in GMail composition window
* Eliminate chattiness from redundant SVG images which lack accessible
information.
* Present SVG documents using the image role
* Several improvements to presentation of contenteditable content
* Several improvements to presentation of aria-details information
* Present aria-invalid info for non-widget elements
* Present aria-roledescription value before mark/highlight start
message
* Ensure ARIA links are not treated like anchors
LibreOffice:
* Calc: Eliminate chattiness from spreadsheet reclaiming focus after
editing cell
General:
* Ensure we use the right voice when presenting autocomplete role
* Improve handling for window switchers which fail to emit needed
accessibility events
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Alan Mortensen
fr French Julien Humbert
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.35.91 - 20 February 2020
Chromium:
* Remove some unwanted noise from frame name when there is no URL
* Ensure we present alert-style dialog name and static text
* Fix issue with live region presentation in embedded web apps
* Improve accuracy getting the accessible object under the pointer
* Work around issue causing us to get stuck when the focused object
gets reparented by the author
* Present alerts on application window activation
Web:
* Improve handling and presentation of dynamic skip links
* Fix bug causing certain code/preformatted text being treated as if
it were on a single line
* Improve handling of the focused object being replaced while focused
* Fix bug causing us to re-announce context inappropriately
* Treat block lists on the same line as other block elements (e.g.
headings) as if they are on a separate line
* Skip over empty paragraphs during caret navigation in web content
* Fix bug causing certain blockquotes to not be announced
* Fix chattiness and performance issue related to line navigation
amongst table rows
* Improve performance by caching object attributes
* Improve performance by skipping pointless ancestor generation
during line navigation
* Improve presentation when caret moves to same-page link
* Fall back on description so we present font-icon-based sharing
links
* Add support for suggestion, insertion, deletion, and mark roles
and elements
* Fix braille presentation of certain browser/app UI elements
* Attempt to identify elements serving as placeholders for entries
* Fix chattiness issue presenting column/row headers with author-
provided names
* Eliminate double-presentation of Table details during structural
navigation
* Improve navigation and presentation in grids in browse mode
* Eliminate double-presentation of caret-moved events from mouse
clicks
* Only treat expandable elements as focus mode widgets if focusable
* Prevent repetition of lines during SayAll for web content
* Announce when an object has aria-details on it, and when entering
or exiting a details container via caret navigation
Terminal:
* Fix double-echoing of key when character echo is enabled
General:
* Don't speak number of children when verbosity is set to brief
* Fix bug causing the Orca modifier to get unbound when a keyboard
is plugged in or removed
* Fix pauses being spoken as period/dot when punctuation is set to all
* Handle setting focused region when accessible objects get recreated
on us during braille generation
* Fix bug causing us to not present certain Qt tables as tables
* Fix bug causing us to not always use the system voice
* Improve filtering out of redundant names when there is a similar
label
* Prefer the name over the displayed text for interactive objects
* Fix bug prevening rebinding of commands with Orca+Shift
* Remove newline char from copied/appended flat review content
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Claude Paroz
gb British English Bruce Cowan
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr
id Indonesian Sucipto
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
ms Malay Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
=========
3.35.3 - 3 Janauary 2020
Web:
* Explicitly announce the popup type when aria-haspopup is used
* Improve presentation of childless editable comboboxes
* Ignore a bogus object from the Gecko accessibility tree which was
interfering with presentation
* Improve scrolling to text objects
* Don't treat nameless, textless links/static text elements as clickables
* Continued improvement of Orca's support for Chromium
* Improve accuracy of synthesized clicks on web pages
* Be sure we don't override sticky browse mode for top-level web apps
* Fix bug causing Orca to not present button name during Say All
* Improve presentation of selection of links which span multiple lines
* Add support for detecting and adjusting scrolling for banner overlays
(Note: This support requires adjustments in the user agents.)
General:
* Fix key echo for accented letters for apps which don't give us the
event string
* Filter out mouse-abs event spam to make mouse review more performant
* Improve reliability of mouse review
* Improve identification and presentation of autocompleted text in
entries
* Work around missing object:state-changed:focused event from GtkTable
which caused Orca to be silent when a table initially gained focus
* Ensure Orca starts even when there are missing gstreamer components
* Add support for word-based speech progress
* Don't treat text insertions from non-focused widgets as echoable
* Ensure we speak selected switcher item even when the user has set
onlySpeakDisplayedText
* Improve reliability of unfocusedAlertAndDialogCount()
* Correct the position and size reported for selectable table rows
* Don't present GtkComboBox selection changes if we're not on/in that
widget
* Present position in list for tables
* Filter out duplicate clipboard contents changed notifications
* Filter out bogus window focus claims from gnome-shell
* Add handling for accessible app names which start with "org." or "com."
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
el Greek Dimitris Maroulidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.34.0 - 9 September 2019
Web:
* Complete *initial* support for Chrome/Chromium. Important: In order
for this support to work, you will need a version of Chrome/Chromium
which has not yet been released. In addition, you will need fixes
which have not yet been committed to Chrome/Chromium. While the Orca
side of things should largely be ready, Chrome/Chromium is not yet
ready for end-user testing with Orca. But we're even closer now. So
stay tuned!
* Don't auto-enter focus mode for embedded role if reading PDF.
* Ensure we respect the choice to temporarily turn live regions off.
* Ignore "document" load events for images emitted by Gecko.
* Eliminate some chattiness with popup button elements.
Thunderbird:
* Attempt to improve performance by ignoring some event spam.
General:
* Several stability fixes for objects and applications going defunct.
* Fix regression introduced by Shift Lock change.
* Improve reliability of mouse review when multiple objects report
same bounding box.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Maroulidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Claude Paroz
it Italian Milo Casagrande
=========
3.33.91 - 27 August 2019
Web:
* Improve performance with structural navigation amongst large objects.
Also fix performance regression introduced in unstable release.
* Treat headings as paragraphs for the purpose of structural navigation
* Treat push buttons with state has-popup as focus-mode widgets
* Fix chattiness resulting from svg elements with no information
* Don't generate tutorial messages for widgets in document content
* Eliminate some chattiness with Google Drive menus
* Improve presentation of widgets which are destroyed and recreated
while focused
* Improve detection and presentation of content which is exposed to
us incorrectly due to CSS properties
* Ongoing work on Chromium support. Note: ATK support in Chromium is
still a work in progress and not yet ready for end-user testing.
But we're getting close, so stay tuned!
GNOME Shell:
* Eliminate some chattiness with Dash
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Robert Antoni Buj i Gelonch
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
de German Tim Sabsch
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
po Polish Piotr Drąg
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
tr Turkish Çağatay Yiğit Şahin
=========
3.33.90 - 2 August 2019
Web:
* Try to include results count during find in page searches
* Fix bugs preventing SayAll on page load from working
* Fix bug in braille presentation of new Firefox location input
* Work around another instance of CSSed text being exposed as one char
per line
* Improve presentation of treegrids
* Reduce chattiness with editable comboboxes and with auto-focused
descendants
* Never treat layout-only-table cells as focus-mode widgets
* Make finding clickables more performant
* Ensure we present final word in element when navigating by word
* Present caret-moved events from mouse clicks even if element hasn't
changed
* Ongoing work on Chromium script. Please note: ATK support in Chromium
needs much work. Until that work has been done, Orca will not be able
to provide access to Chromium. The current support is very much a work
in progress and not yet ready for end-user testing.
Mouse Review:
* Improve overall presentation of units of text under the pointer
* Improve logic filtering out irrelevant mouse movements during review
* Apply non-mousereview cell/row presentation preferences for a
more consistent experience
* Don't present description for mouse review if tooltip presentation
is off
General:
* Add support for Shift Lock
* Add initial support for AtspiText's scrollSubstringTo
* Add fall backs for click-at-point failures
* Also check for "underline:spelling" as indication of spelling error
* Improve response time for mouse input events
* Allow building with gettext ≥ 0.20
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
ro Romanian Florentina Mușat
ru Russian Stas Solovey
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.33.3 - 18 June 2019
Web:
* Improve presentation of Google Sheets when native accessibility
support is being used rather than live-region-based support
* Add support for in-process ARIA feature for alternative text for
cell indices
* Fix bug in live region support causing some information to not be
presented
* Improve presentation of off-screen content (so that it isn't
spoken as if each word is on its own line)
* Ensure we present newly-focused widget when current widget gets
destroyed
* Fix presentation of description-term and description-value roles
* Fix bug causing basic context information to be missing during
structural navigation
* Improve presentation of Dojo color-chooser buttons
* Speak the landmark type before the landmark name/content rather
than after
* Don't treat two landmarks as being on the same line
* Fix issue resulting in some items being skipped during SayAll
* Ensure we don't filter out links with author-provided names
* Improve likelihood that we'll speak link role for descendant text
* Improve behavior of non-interactive web cells with click handlers
* Ensure we present the newly-focused element after dialog is dismissed
* Explicitly clear text selection when controlling navigation
* Work around another issue in Gecko's broken text implementation
* Ongoing work on Chromium script. Please note: ATK support in Chromium
needs much work. Until that work has been done, Orca will not be able
to provide access to Chromium. The current support is very much a work
in progress and not yet ready for end-user testing.
Mouse Review:
* Fix bug causing us to present the wrong document when multiple
documents are open
General:
* Fix several issues related to presentation of combo boxes
* Separate out voice variants in GUI
* Fix braille traceback when there are no lines to display
* Add marks at end of line for speech
* Fix several "chattiness" issues
* Improve performance searching for objects in accessibility tree
* Improve flat review of table rows
* Ignore window deactivate events if the event is not from the active
window
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Efstathios Iosifidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr, Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
=========
3.33.1 - 18 April 2019
Web:
* Fix issue navigating to and around multibyte characters
* Fix issue related to our workaround for broken Gecko text
* Improve presentation of nameless links with non-meaningful URL
* Fix bug causing us to get stuck in a nested layout tables when
using table navigation on the non-layout parent
* Don't exit focus mode when navigating among text in a web app
* Only do the work to filter inferred labels if we have to
* Eliminate duplicate presentation of table-row content
* Fix bug in going to the beginning/end of a container via structural
navigation
Speech:
* When we don't have a custom char name, use speech-dispatcher's API
to speak characters so that letters are not presented as words
Qt:
* Ignore events from accelerator labels
LibreOffice:
* Do not announce selection changes from unfocused combo boxes
General:
* Handle the reported number of text selections being -1
* Migrate from intltool to gettext
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Guillaume Bernard
=========
3.32.0 - 13 March 2019
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
de German Tim Sabsch
=========
3.31.92 - 8 March 2019
General:
* Create generic switcher script and use it for all non-gnome-shell
switchers
* Improve presentation when initially getting into the Compiz and
MATE switchers
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
sr Serbian Марко Костић
=========
3.31.91 - 21 February 2019
Web:
* Ensure web contents are scrolled into view during SayAll
* Scroll the current object to the top edge when using structural
navigation
* Prevent extra context being presented in contenteditable elements
* Work around YouTube focus issue when navigating by heading
* Improve presentation of graphical/icon-based push buttons
* Increase the likelihood that inline list items will be presented as
one line
* Attempt to identify and ignore bogus events from background etherpad
* Fix issue presenting text with links when using etherpad in object
mode
* Don't do SayAll for URIs starting with "moz-extension"
* Improve interaction and presentation of focusable trees
LibreOffice:
* Fix presentation of text selection spanning multiple, partial
lines in a list
General:
* Fix hang resulting from building flat review context from objects
claiming a bogus, huge bounding box
* Handle broken accessibility tree when generating labelOrName
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
da Danish Alan Mortensen
de German Tim Sabsch
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
po Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
=========
3.31.4 - 14 January 2019
New Commands:
* Add unbound command to present current object's size and position
* Add an unbound command to switch between layout mode and object mode
Web:
* Ignore page loads for non-active documents
* Fix presentation of focusable text with MathML children
* Eliminate some chattiness with MathML embedded in links and headings
* Improve finding sentence start in contents with embedded objects
* Make toggle buttons and non-focusable buttons reachable via "b"
* Improve consistency in placement of navlist
* Fallback on access key when there is no aria-keyshortcuts value
* Check 'URI' in addition to 'DocURL' when getting URL of document
* Add initial Chromium script. Please note: ATK support in Chromium
needs much work. Until that work has been done, Orca will not be able
to provide access to Chromium. The current support is very much a work
in progress and not yet ready for end-user testing.
LibreOffice:
* Ensure we fall back on native headers when dynamic headers aren't set
Braille:
* Fail initialization if device is not plugged yet
* On initialization error, make sure to clean BrlAPI connection
* Ensure we don't pan beyond the length of the line being displayed
* Make sure the attribute mask is as long as the text string
General:
* Ignore window deactivations we believe are not user-triggered
(Reduces chattiness when using certain window-manager shortcuts)
* Improve performance searching the accessibility tree for needed
information
* Don't clear the cache of non-Gecko windows by default (improves
performance)
* Don't bother checking the mousereview item when mousereview is not
active (improves performance)
* Fix bug in flat review say all causing us to cut off information
* Fall back on rolename when presenting title of nameless frames
* Ensure we use keyval_name when event_string is absent for keyboard
events
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Charles Monzat
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.31.1 - 19 Octoboer 2018
General:
* Include the selected item count when presenting selection
* Fix double presentation of items in certain lists
* Handle various instances of objects going defunct
* Present expanded state even when state expandable is not
exposed
* Treat expanded events from listboxes and push buttons as
presentable events
* Ignore spurious focus claim from gnome-shell window after
switcher use
* Add handling for objects with role "redundant object"
* Ensure we're not silent when a cell gains focus
* Add initial support for Smuxi (gnome frontend)
* Restore X keyboard layout on orca segfault
* Add support for removing user profiles
Web:
* Improve behavior of page summary when caret context is null
or the document cannot be found
* Handle component interface failures in label inference
* Sanity-check offsets before calling getRangeExtents()
* Make braille presentation of new document web role consistent
with old document frame role
* Ensure we correctly speak the role of edit spin buttons
LibreOffice:
* Work around Writer killing focused cell during row insertion
and deletion
* Don't present ancestors after editing Calc cell
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
=========
3.30.1 - 19 Octoboer 2018
General:
* Fix presentation of nameless menu items in certain gnome-shell
extensions
* Improve presentation of Pluma spell-check dialog
* Fix bug in sentence echo
* Fix issue with profile names containing XML special characters
Web:
* Fix some chattiness with SayAll in web content
LibreOffice:
* Work around Writer issue preventing presentation of selected text
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ru Russian Stas Solovey
sr Serbian Марко Костић
=========
3.30.0 - 17 September 2018
General:
* Present event for non-showing object if it's focused
* Don't present unselected-cell message for text objects
* Don't speak "no focus" even when there is no accessible application
focused (it annoys users more than it helps them)
* Automatically present details content upon expansion of controlling
widget
* Bump version for availability of simulating modifiers in at-spi
Web:
* Ignore bogus focus event for active window from Gecko
* Don't speak row header role with multiple objects are on the same line
* Only prefer the name of links when it's author-provided
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
de German Tim Sabsch
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
sk Slovak Peter Vágner
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.29.92 - 3 September 2018
General:
* Fall back on displayed text for labels which lack an accessible name
* Fix regression resulting from presentation of all selected items
* Always treat ROLE_APPLICATION objects as having size
Web:
* Clear cache to work around missing state-changed event
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Tim Sabsch
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
po Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
=========
3.29.4 - 30 July 2018
General:
* Announce when all items in a container have been selected
* Rename selected-text command, bind it to a keystroke, and make it work in
spreadsheets and other containers
* Check additional ancestry when trying to find current flat review location
* Limit double-orca caps lock synthesis to within 0.5s
* Minimize looking for unrelated labels in gnome-shell (performance)
* Add brief delay before announcing "no focus"
Terminal:
* Treat terminal insertions which end at the caret as presentable
* Prevent double-echoing of typed characters
LibreOffice:
* Add option to always speak full selected range in spreadsheet
Speech:
* Fix issues in recently-added progress marking and SSML support
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Xavi Ivars
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
=========
3.29.3 - 7 July 2018
Web + Email:
* Stop Orca from descending into widget elements it should not descend
* Fix bug preventing Orca from presenting the current object
* Fix chattiness problem due to creation of bogus window accessibles
* Filter out bogus load events from Firefox extensions
* Correcly update caret position when Page Up/Down used in editable text
* Fix focus mode staying toggled off after leaving context menu
* Don't exit focus mode when navigating to/amongst radio buttons
* Eliminate double-presentation of name when name comes from contents
* Improve MathML presentation
LibreOffice:
* Present Calc cell selection changes
General:
* Fix many bugs and improve performance of Mouse Review
* Handle starting flat review when offset is after final character
* Do a better job of determining the focused object upon launch
* Ensure the expanded state of tree rows is annnounced
* Support synthesizing caps lock for double-orca support
(requires AT-SPI2 2.30 or later)
* Make double-orca presses perform the underlying key action
* Reduce chattiness in icon views
* Ensure buttons with single-character names get spoken
* Fix several issues in Orca's presentation of unrelated labels
* Improve behavior/presentation when current object becomes defunct
* Fall back on described-by relation to get description
* Ignore various bogus events from apps and toolkits
Speech:
* Respect SSML norm
* Add progress marking support
Braille:
* Fix braille updating when backspacing text on long lines
* braille: only set viewport[0] to 0 when the string fits
* Update braille when caret moves in web page due to mouse click
* Support CMD_FWINLTSKIP and CMD_FWINRTSKIP from brltty
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
=========
3.28.2 - 28 June 2018
Web + Email:
* Update Orca to handle "document web" role now used in Gecko
General:
* Fix bug causing certain combo boxes to not be presented
Braille:
* Fix braille word wrap being incorrectly enabled
* Fix brlmon regression introduced by 71b63379f
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
de German Tim Sabsch
=========
3.28.1 - 21 April 2018
Web + Email:
* Fix Orca-triggered focus change in Thunderbird message composition
window
General:
* Handle event floods from Caja and Nautilus more efficiently
Braille:
* Release device when braille is deactivated for some applications
* Fix bogus dots appearing after text
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
3.28.0 - 26 March 2018
Web + Email:
* Ensure focus is grabbed on image links when navigating
* Fix bug causing notifications to trigger browse mode
LibreOffice:
* Improve heuristic to identify spellcheck dialog
General:
* Ensure list name is presented for ancestor lists
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Alan Mortensen
de German Tim Sabsch
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Gábor Kelemen, Balázs Úr
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
nl Dutch Nathan Follens
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sr@latin Serbian Latin Милош Поповић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
zh_CN Chinese (China) Mingcong Bai
=========
3.27.91 - 19 February 2018
Web + Email:
* Improve navigation among, and presentation of, editable elements with
descendants
* Fix bug in which Orca went silent due to text elements failing to
support the accessible text interface
* Eliminate double presentation of visual labels which also provide the
accessible description
* Fix issue causing Orca to skip over certain table content in SayAll
* Improve presentation of displayed text in ARIA dialogs
* Re-enable announcement of page tab switches in Firefox
LibreOffice:
* Work around https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109398
* Eliminate double presentation of redundant frames
General:
* Implement initial support for braille "word wrap"
* Improve presentation of locations in file chooser dialog
* Only present text changes from type-ahead entries if they are focused
* Eliminate some chattiness resulting from redundant focus claims from
Gtk+ tables
* Eliminate double-presentation of spin button value changes
* Fix bug causing nameless, valueless comboboxes to not be presented
* Fix issues in Orca's documentation
* Bump minimum version of AT-SPI2
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Tim Sabsch
eo Esperanto Kristjan SCHMIDT
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
id Indonesian Kukuh Syafaat
po Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
uk Ukrainian Андрій Бандура
=========
3.27.3 - 11 December 2017
Web + Email:
* Fixed several issues in presentation of editable content
* Hack around lack of window:activate events for ARIA dialogs
* Fix presentation of find results in new version of Firefox
* Improve handling of focused elements getting destroyed when activated
* Attempt to identify and navigate around non-navigable embedded documents
General:
* Fix chattiness issue caused by off-screen labels in Gtk+ listboxes
* Eliminate incorrect presentation of previous panel
* Fix issues to pass 'yelp-check validate'
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca@valencia Catalan (Valencian) Xavi Ivars
cs Czech Marek Černocký
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
no Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara, Olcay Aşcı
=========
3.26.0 - 15 September 2017
Web:
* Add support for aria-errormessage
* Add support for aria-keyshortcuts
* Fix several issues related to presentation of plain text content
LibreOffice:
* Filter out checked event from window which isn't active
* Work around event-ordering issue
General:
* Fix incorrect presentation of old ancestors
* Fix issue related to presentation of status bars
* Remove unneeded try/except around Gdk.notify_startup_complete()
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Christian Kirbach,
Mario Blättermann
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Alain Lojewski
fur Friulian Fabio Tomat
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ml Malayalam Anish Sheela
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle,
Tiago Casal
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sr@latin Serbian Милош Поповић
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Emin Tufan Çetin
=========
3.25.4 - 31 July 2017
Web:
* Add support for DPub ARIA roles
* Add custom localized role names for ARIA feed and figure roles
* Treat articles as "large objects" for the purpose of structural
navigation
* Ensure we present infobar-like widgets with role of alert
* Eliminate double presentation of name of widgets which descend from
label element
* Fix presentation of checkboxes and radio buttons with descendants
when using caret navigation
* Work around Gecko not pruning alt="" images from accessibility tree
LibreOffice:
* Fix bug in presentation of selected item in comboboxes
* Ensure we present focus claims from lists which manage descendants
* Fix performance issue presenting selection changes in spreadsheet
General:
* Work around missing events for popup menus, submenus, and dialogs
* Work around missing state-changed:focused events for Gtk+ apps
* Update locusOfFocus to active window even in the case of broken
hierarchy
* Fix presentation of cells with multiple renderers
* Handle more instances of dead accessible objects and non-responsive
applications
* Eliminate chattiness resulting from events coming from ancestor of
locusOfFocus
* Improve presentation of newly-focused listboxes
* Sanity-check values app provides in response to getTextAtOffset()
* Address Python 3.6 invalid escape sequence deprecation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
=========
3.24.0 - 20 March 2017
Web:
* Fix issue in new command to move to the end of the current container.
* Fix instance in which we were failing to present contenteditable
content.
* Sanity check our attempt to hack around broken text from Gecko.
General:
* Improve presentation of Gtk+ editable combo boxes.
* Attempt to handle children-changed:add event flood from menus.
MATE:
* Filter out focus events from widgets in windows which claim to be
active, but actually are not.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Mario Blättermann
fr French Claude Paroz
fur Friulian Fabio Tomat
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
it Italian Milo Casagrande
sk Slovak Peter Vágner
=========
3.23.91 - 27 February 2017
Web:
* Add structural navigation commands to move to start, end of current
container.
* Handle bogus/duplicate accessible-application instances we're seeing
with Gecko apps built against Gtk+ 3 (eliminates double-presentation
during caret-navigation).
* Try to prevent SeaMonkey Mail composition from unexpectedly entering
browse mode.
* Fix issues getting stuck in visually-hidden MathML content (MathJax).
* Prevent generation of unrelated labels for web content (performance).
* Fix several issues to improve our workarounds for bugs in Gecko's
accessible-text interface.
* More work on recovery from zombified elements (improves reliability).
* Improve reliability of "sticky" browse mode.
* Fix minor issues in new context-presentation support.
* Don't present loading messages if document is neither showing nor
visible.
MATE:
* Work around MATE Panel's less-than-ideal event ordering and missing
events in order to improve presentation of its Applications menu.
* Sanity-check windows which claim to be active and ignore bogus
window:active events and state-changed:active events from frames.
General:
* Don't present new ancestors of menu bars.
* Don't use the pyatspi cache for descriptions to ensure we don't
present stale information.
* Don't treat insertions as auto-text events if the source is no longer
focused.
* Fix recent (unstable-version) regression in which labels which
label other labels stopped being presented.
* Update the active window and conditionally present mouse-triggered
focus changes.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Christian Kirbach
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
zh_CN Chinese (China) Mandy Wang
zh_TW Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.23.4 - 2 February 2017
Web:
* Optionally announce when entering and leaving blockquotes, lists,
tables, panels, forms, and landmarks
* Improve handling of pages where the content is rapidly and repeatedly
destroyed and replaced
* Improve workarounds for several Gecko editable-text bugs
* Ensure we always announce ARIA landmark type before setting the caret
* Improve presentation of ARIA regions
* Add custom support for ARIA switch role
* Present messages resulting from use of aria-invalid
* Check for and filter out defunct objects when building elements list
* Eliminate double-speaking of line after document load
* Suppress presentation of irrelevant loading messages resulting from
busy state-change events in SeaMonkey's mail client
* Eliminate double-speaking of inferred labels in SayAll
* Fix several instances where new document name was not being presented
* Handle (un)ordered lists in which item text falls outside the item
element
* Descend images if they are imagemaps so that we don't fail to present
their content
LibreOffice:
* Fix crash presenting certain Writer tables
* Handle LO's recently-corrected exposure of text attributes for
spellcheck
* Handle change in LO's accessibility tree for dialogs
* Handle more cases of LO objects becoming defunct
* Don't assume we can always get a string value for Calc input line
* Yet another workaround for yet another missing state-changed event
General:
* Make spoken presentation of accessible description optional
* Work around missing focus-change events when focus changes due to a
mouse click
* Use Unicode in translatable strings
* Fix several issues in which we incorrectly update our location based
on bogus or redundant accessibility events
* Reduce chattiness associated with presentation of typeahead search
* Include infobar content when presenting status bar and default button
* Reduce chattiness associated with icons which incorrectly implement
accessible text
* Improve presentation of editable comboboxes
* Fix bug in which Orca is silent on launch due to inability to access
default screen
* Don't generate substring content unnecessarily (performance)
* Don't treat an empty table as layout only if the user gives it focus
* Fix bug speaking punctuation when punctuation style is set to NONE
* Stop converting horizontal ellipses to "..." in braille
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Christian Kirbach
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Balázs Meskó
nl Dutch Justin van Steijn
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
=========
3.22.2 - 8 November 2016
General:
* Improve support for Icedove
* Work around broken accessibility trees causing flat review to fail
* Work around missing state-changed events for LibreOffice toggle
buttons
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
fr French Claude Paroz
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
nl Dutch Justin van Steijn
=========
3.22.1 - 11 October 2016
Terminal:
* Reduce some chattiness using vim
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB British English David King
hr Croatian gogo
it Italian Milo Casagrande
oc Occitan Cédric Valmary
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.21.92 - 16 September 2016
Chat:
* Fix performance issue with Pidgin channels with thousands of users
* Fix bug in presenting chatroom name when app is not active
* Add customization to present chat room name after incoming message
Flat Review:
* Make context menus flat-reviewable
* Improve filtering out of non-showing menu items in flat review
* Take possible margins/padding into account when looking for the
descendant at a specified point (performance)
* Do not treat collapsed table rows as leaf nodes if they have
children
Web:
* Add explicit do-not-descend-for-caret check for ROLE_IMAGE so that
we don't present useless information when authors use ARIA's img
role on embedded SVG documents
* Handle another instance of broken accessibility trees
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gábor Kelemen
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.21.91 - 2 September 2016
Flat Review:
* Automatically refresh content
* Improve accuracy with respect to what is truly on screen and where
it is located
* Improve performance building context
* Fix reviewability of Gtk+ icon panels and Gtk+ spin button values
* Add toolkit-specific handling for special cases (and toolkit bugs)
* Make menu-bar menus reviewable, including separators and disabled
items which cannot be arrowed to natively
* Make objects which typically display text (but might not implement
the text interface) reviewable by word and character
* Fix issue finding initial flat review location in Thunderbird
Mouse Review:
* Dig deeper to find object under pointer for page tab list descendants
(So we don't just say "Page Tab")
* Fix issue causing Orca to say "blank" in text with embedded objects
* Add word support to all text objects; not just editable text objects
* Work around Gtk+ 3 exposing incorrect text range extents for entries
(So we present the actual word under the mouse)
* Add logic to handle windows whose accessible name doesn't match the
displayed name
* Add an announcement so that when the user toggles Mouse Review some
confirmation is provided
Terminal:
* Fix instance where braille was not being refreshed
* Do not ignore deletion events resulting from BackSpace
* Update some cached information
* Filter out a spurious, unwanted text-delete event from VTE
* Don't treat inserted strings <= 1 char as a terminal autotext event
* Don't treat terminal insertion as command result if terminal isn't
locusOfFocus
* Present terminal paste events like we do paste events from other apps
* Work around issues in the text support of VTE which was causing us
to present cut-off text
* Attempt to filter out terminal pager text-change noise to reduce
chattiness
* Present terminal pager text insertions when they result from a
printable key
Web:
* Add a "sticky" browse mode and keybinding
* Do not descend ROLE_EMBEDDED objects for the caret (ARIA compliance)
* Treat menu and toolbar descendants as focus mode widgets
* Create new localized role names for ARIA landmark roles
* Don't automatically update locusOfFocus to alerts; just present them
* Improve presentation of Roundcube Mail's list of messages
* Fix issue presenting stale content
* Don't present name and summary for page which is no longer showing
or visible
* Attempt to hack around SeaMonkey's broken events for HTML input
popups which was causing us to exit focus mode incorrectly
* Improve presentation and handling of editable ARIA combo boxes
LibreOffice:
* Don't treat present "readonly" state for paragraphs in read-only
documents
* Add handling for GtkListBox items used by LibreOffice
* Work around a number of LibreOffice bugs which were causing us to
to present the wrong thing
Other:
* Ensure we use the system voice for rolename info in WebKitGtk SayAll
* Create new localized rolenames for horizontal and vertical scrollbars
bars, sliders, and splitters
* More aggressively verify if a message is from a focused chat
* Fix whereAmI presentation of Gtk+ 3.20 combo boxes
* Remove .desktop file
* Include tool bar when presenting context
* Improve reliability of profile-based synthesis switching
* Do not supress presentation of locking keys in password fields
* Make the progressbar update intervals independent so beeps are always
presented when that is desired
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Mario Blättermann,
Christian Kirbach
en_GB British English David King
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Balázs Úr
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt Portuguese Tiago Santos
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle,
Enrico Nicoletto
sk Slovak Dušan Kazik
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara,
Neriman Kara
=========
3.21.3 - 20 June 2016
Web:
* Fix a couple of instances of Orca getting stuck during caret
navigation
* Fix bug in setting position via element-list dialogs
* Eliminate double-presentation of inferred labels
* Add more caching for performance
LibreOffice:
* Ignore object:state-changed:sensitive events for menu items
because LibreOffice is flooding us
General:
* Eliminate hang resulting from AT-SPI2 crash
* Don't show as desktop application in Unity; Orca is part of
Universal Access
* Take interfaces into account when looking for non-descendable
descendants (helps with performance)
* Handle more instances of objects going defunct, apps becoming
non-responsive, and apps creating duplicate accessible objects
* Make the output of 'orca -l' more verbose to identify non-
responsive apps
* Ensure a script only registers one signal handler for clipboard
changes
* Ensure synthesizer is changed when switching profiles via command
* Filter out more duplicate input events
* Support non-srcdir builds in autogen.sh
* Miscellaneous code clean up
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
oc Occitan Cédric Valmary
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
=========
3.21.1 - 25 April 2016
Gecko:
* Fix presentation of title bar in Gecko apps
* Work around Google Maps killing the focused widget
* Fix offset used when evaluating text selection in content with
embedded objects
* Don't set new focus to context object if context object is zombie
* Only update locusOfFocus to context replicant if locusOfFocus is a
zombie
* Don't use generated text as name for web content which exposes a name,
unless it's a combo box or spin button
* Cache label-related information for web content for performance
* Ignore events from Mozilla's self-repair hidden page
* Don't do SayAll for page fragments
* Prevent locusOfFocus change when navigating in SeaMonkey message list
Unity Panel Service:
* Work around labels reporting an index in parent of -1
* Work around label descriptions containing unwanted content
* Fall back on name when labels fail to implement the text interface
Gtk+
* Handle changes in Gtk+ 3.20 combo boxes
* Only treat cells with non-whitespace chars as real active descendants
General:
* Detect and handle row-reordered event spam so valid events can be
presented
* Fix a false positive with clipboard messages
* Don't re-present description if it was used as name fallback
* Handle unhandled case of objects becoming defunct
* Fix syntax error in Bulgarian help file
* Begin refactoring of keyboard event processing
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pt Portuguese Tiago Carrondo
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.20.0 - 21 March 2016
General:
* Fix desktop file keywords in Slovenian translation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle
=========
3.19.92 - 19 March 2016
General:
* Return early in allSelectedText() when entire document is selected
(performance)
* Fix restoration of location when returning to nested document after
find in page
* Work around unforunate event order when switching page tabs in Gecko
applications
* Eliminate several clipboard/selection-related-presentation false
positives
* Treat terminal text insertions resulting from Alt-modified input event
as command output
* Map MATE's notification daemon to the notification-daemon script
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov, Zahari Yurukov
da Danish scootergrisen
el Greek Efstathios Iosifidis, Tom Tryfonidis
fr French Claude Paroz
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Balázs Meskó
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Gazoni
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.19.91 - 2 March 2016
General:
* Fix several issues in presentation of clipboard notifications
* Ignore some uninteresting and spammy events (performance, chattiness)
* Don't keep asking the registry for the desktop (performance)
* Eliminate several instances of terminal chattiness
* Hack around Pidgin status toggle button bug
* Improve presentation of selection changes in layered panes
* Fix modifier keys being passed to application while in in learn mode
* Add a customization to present updates for status bar progress bars
* Make detailed whereAmI fall back on basic whereAmI presentation
* Speak popovers which are modal but do not claim focus
* Fix incorrect identification of commands entered on Cyrillic keyboards
* Fix presentation of first radio button in a functional (but not actual)
group
* Use isSameObject() to detect widgets and windows which were recreated
Gecko:
* Work around multiple accessible objects for one functional window
* Add more, and more performant, zombie replicant recovery utilities
* Grab focus on entries when setting focus mode; not when positioning
caret so we don't accidentally trigger popups
* Notify script when locusOfFocus is set from window to contenteditable
objects so we're not silent
* Work around broken table interface Gecko issue
* Attempt to identify and present clipboard events caused by elements
* Let default script handle content editable during selection
* Clear content cache when Thunderbird window is deactivated so we don't
mistakenly conclude we're in the same document frame
* Fix several caret navigation and structural navigation bugs
* Present object counts for all objects in detailed whereAmI page
summary
LibreOffice:
* Update some heuristics to address changed roles in Calc 5.1.x
* Handle more cases of Calc becoming non-responsive or crashing
* Work around missing event from LibreOffice Calc
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
oc Occitan Cédric Valmary
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.19.90 - 17 February 2016
New Features and Options:
* Present copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, selection deletion, and
selection restoration
* Add progress bar beeps
* Add core support for sound-icons (not yet enabled)
* Add option to present page summary upon load, and include landmarks
in summary
* Speak visited state for links which have been visited
* Make Flat Review SayAll binding independent of focus-tracking SayAll
binding
* Speak text indentation during selection
* Add a specific setting for speaking the misspelled indicator
General:
* Improve presentation of selected content in Gecko
* Fix bug in on-the-fly row reading for spreadsheets
* Update support for changes in Calc 5.1
* Fix failure to copy all characters when using flat review copy
* Present the new location when using PageUp/PageDown in web content
* Remove the old and broken-for-years console setup
* Work around broken text-insertion events from gnome-shell
* Handle missing events from Eclipse
* Work around focused links Gtk+ links reporting index in parent of -1
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Mario Blättermann
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eo Esperanto Kristjan SCHMIDT
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
oc Occitan Cédric Valmary
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.19.3 - 16 December 2016
New Settings and Commands:
* Create separate cell-vs-row reading options for tables in GUIs, text
documents, and spreadsheets
* Add GUI option to configure capitalization style
Web:
* Improve performance of presentation of web listboxes
* Improve presentation of headings which contain embedded objects
* Improve presentation of non-empty anchors
General:
* Ensure the correct voice is used when generating current line of text
* Call gdk_notify_startup_complete()
* Fix several bugs related to presenting the locus of focus
* Fix double-presentation of top-level Gtk+ alerts
* Cache the string in addition to the offsets for selected text (perf.)
* Add more sanity checks for defunct objects and applications
* Stop filtering out events from ROLE_FILLER (because some applications
lack proper roles)
* Don't treat a series of periods as an ellipsis
* Treat ROLE_PAGE as a top-level object when doing Zombie checks (fixes
Evince issue)
* Don't verbalize punctuation or capitalization for system messages
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
pt Portuguese Pedro Albuquerque
=========
3.19.2 - 25 November 2015
New Settings and Commands:
* Add unbound commands to present selected text and link details
* Add GUI to enable rewind/fast-forward and structural navigation
in Say All
* Make the use of color names configurable via GUI
* Make speech and braille message settings configurable via GUI
* Add preference and unbound keybinding to have Orca speak numbers
as digits
* Add explicit time format option for 12-hour time with seconds
* Break up printable-keys keyecho into alpha, numeric, and punctuation
Web:
* Improve presentation of Twitter timeline items
* Fix several bugs related to navigation to fragments
* Filter out hidden elements when presenting content
* Use Gecko's onChildrenChanged callback for Thunderbird instead of
the default (fixes issues related to cache management)
* Use isLink() rather than a role check to eliminate false positive
from anchors
* Don't look for replicant for zombie locusOfFocus when in focus mode
* Remove application from the list of ARIA landmark types (ARIA 1.1
compliance)
Gtk:
* Present newly-shown GtkInfoBars
* Improve presentation of GtkEntryCompletion
* Generate all child widgets of GtkListBox items
General:
* Work around several issues related to identifying and keeping track
of the active window
* Don't double/multi-present selection-state messages
* Fix bug in which text was not presented because object had a name
* Rewrite and fix several bugs in Orca's progress bar support
* Filter out some more useless/bogus events (for performance)
* Handle more instances of the undead (zombies); start handling the
dead (fixes various and sundry bugs resulting from objects going
defunct on us)
* Fix double-presentation and incorrect ordering of frame name changes
* Rewrite setLocusOfFocus and default script's onCaretMoved (improves
performance, eliminates instances of not presenting new location)
* Don't display shortcuts if braille verbosity is set to brief
* Add NotShowIn=GNOME; to the desktop file
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Wolfgang Stöggl
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
pt Portuguese Pedro Albuquerque
=========
3.18.2 - 9 November 2015
Web:
* Fix typeahead search regression in the list-of-elements dialogs
* Fix a couple of issues associated with presenting "busy" pages
* Switch to sticky focus mode in top-level web apps like Google Docs
* Attempt to work around Google Docs editor exposed as ROLE_UNKNOWN
* Don't infer labels for form fields in web apps
* Present text changes resulting from onclick handlers
* Don't generate ancestors for MathML elements and filter out empty
utterances (performance)
* Eliminate several instances of Gecko chattiness
* Filter out more browser chrome event spam (performance)
* Use Orca's web support to say word contents for editable messages in
Thunderbird (works around broken text interface implementation)
* Work around broken lists in web content
* Don't return the child of a "non-descendable" element as the last
document object
* Don't descend links with author-provided names
General:
* Fix issue in which key presses were being echoed in a password field
* Add sanity check for broken accessibility trees when getting the
focused child
* Update Gedit spellcheck support for 3.18 and improve heuristic
performance
* Do not try to calculate node level for non-tree descendants
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Christian Kirbach
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
=========
3.18.1 - 14 October 2015
Web:
* Improve presentation of canvas elements which lack fallback content
* Fix for Orca filtering out text elements which have no size due to
authoring
* Fix for Orca not doing SayAll on load when the focused object is the
document frame
* Workaround several issues which was causing the caret to get "stuck"
* Add another fallback "guess" to the label inference code for fields
in poorly-authored forms
* Present Firefox "door hanger" alerts
* Filter out selection event spam from browser chrome autocompletes
* Prefer name over label when generating labelOrName (W3C compliance)
* Ensure we present aria-roledescription for non-focusable landmarks
* Include object role in the list of landmarks dialog
* Don't treat objects with ROLE_LABEL as an ancestor (causes double
presentation of widget name)
* Process DOM changes more efficiently for performance
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Wolfgang Stöggl
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Casal
sr Serbian Марко Костић
sr@latin Serbian Милош Поповић
=========
3.18.0 - 21 September 2015
General:
* Fix flatreview traceback
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
fr French Julien Hardelin
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.17.92 - 16 September 2015
Web:
* Add support for aria-roledescription
* Work around missing object:state-changed:focused events from Gecko
* Fix several instances of Orca getting "stuck" in Gecko content
* Fix bug causing Orca to skip over nested iframe content during SayAll
General:
* Handle tracebacks resulting from Calc crashing
* Explicitly deregister keystroke listeners before shutting down
* Ignore state-changed:busy events seen when printing in Thunderbird
* Eliminate false positive identifying Thunderbird spellcheck dialog
* Fix a performance issue associated with appearance of dialogs with
many widgets
* Save messages and add braille output to the notification-daemon script
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Christian Kirbach
fr French Claude Paroz
=========
3.17.91 - 2 September 2015
Web:
* Treat (un)ordered HTML lists without list items as if they were divs
* Clear the cache and try once more when the next/previous context
cannot be found
* Treat web documents as top-level roles for the purpose of Zombie
detection
* Fix MathML line navigation issue
* Fix issue causing Orca to skip certain web content during Say All
* Improve caret navigation around images lacking content, interaction,
and size
General:
* Updated documentation
* Add ability to override object role when generating tutorial messages
* Handle more event floods from LibreOffice and gnome-shell
* Handle several "The process appears to be hung" AT-SPI2 errors from
Firefox and LibreOffice
* Work around broken custom comboboxes and listboxes which lack items
* Fix bug in presentation of chat messages from non-active applications
* Add option to speak 12-hour time without seconds
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles,
Miguel Rodríguez Núñez
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
zh_TW Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.17.90 - 19 August 2015
Spellcheck:
* Use Orca's spellcheck support in the LibreOffice script
* Perform normal WhereAmI at the end of spellcheck WhereAmI
* Present child position according to user preference
* Fix several chattiness issues
Gecko:
* Handle Gecko-specific text attribute name for misspelled
* Fix traceback getting into Thunderbird preferences
* Fix bug in line navigation of MathML content
* Don't generate ancestors beyond MathML math element
* Don't treat objects with tons of embedded objects as text "chunks"
* Don't repeat document-loading message given multiple "busy" events
* Handle input type="number" (which is not exposed like native version)
* Ensure object mode navigation presents only content from one object
* Refine heuristic for ignoring object:selection-changed events
* Don't include empty text block elements in structural navigation
* Skip over anchors when looking for next/previous caret context
* Treat lists as text block elements in web content
* Improve how Orca works with Etherpad in Firefox
LibreOffice:
* Fix several issues in which focused widgets were not presented
General:
* Use gi.require_version to address PyGIWarning
* Fix several bugs in _generateUnselectedCell()
* Don't sanity-check children if there are a huge number of them
* Don't generate availability for list items as it doesn't make sense
* Don't insist upon label visibility for status bar notifications
* Add support to navlist for specifying and jumping to a caret offset
* Begin cleaning up text-attribute-related code
* Eliminate some false positives in isLayoutOnly()
* Fix desktop file translations
* Fix typos in translator comments
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Christian Kirbach
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Pedro Albuquerque
=========
3.17.4 - 22 July 2015
MathML:
* Implement speech support for MathML content in Gecko-based browsers
Web:
* Fix several regressions introduced by the new "web" script
* Don't set the locusOfFocus to non-focused link upon document focus
* Ignore state-changed:busy events from nested web documents
* Create a utility method to get and cache an element's tag
General:
* Handle some changes in the Thunderbird v.38 spellcheck dialog
* Add handling for ROLE_HEADER
* Add support for status bar notifications
* Remove the old "inacessible" metacity/marco hack
* Stop using gnome-autogen.sh
* Mark several command-line strings for translation
* Enable toggling of speech via keybinding when speech is disabled
* Add handling for Evo's "autocomplete" popups
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
pt Portuguese Pedro Albuquerque
=========
3.17.3 - 23 June 2015
Gecko:
* Fix several issues in Orca's live region support to make Google Docs
usable with Orca
* Rewrite Orca's structural navigation support to fix bugs and improve
performance
* Create "web" script and use it for Gecko content
* Avoid navigating into tooltip-like popups in web apps
* Fix issues related to Gecko using ROLE_TEXT for static text elements
General:
* Improve performance associated with event floods and dead accessibles
* Fix presentation of newly-misspelled words in LibreOffice Writer
* Present the text of ROLE_FOOTER objects
* Add unbound keybindings to increase and decrease speech volume
* Fall back on parent autocomplete if entry lacks label and name
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Miguel Rodríguez Núñez
=========
3.17.2 - 27 May 2015
Gecko:
* Update spellchecking support to handle changes in recent releases
of Thunderbird
* Fix several SayAll issues
* Fix failure to present the last line in a text area
* Fix failure to move to newly-loaded page fragment
* Fix failure to present expanded state change in ARIA content
* Fix failure to present correct radio button state in ARIA content
* Stop double-presenting find results
* Stop re-generating braille when not needed
* Fix issue presenting focus changes between document frame and child
link
* Reset command state when Gecko script is deactivated in order to
ensure content is presented after Alt+Tabbing back into Firefox
General:
* Fix several issues related to pyatspi cache not being updated
* Handle traceback when calling findAllDescendants in broken
implementation
* Stop repeating tutorial messages when navigating amongst items
of the same type
* Work around still more missing object:state-changed:focused events
from Gtk+
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
oc Occitan Cédric Valmary
=========
3.16.2 - 12 May 2015
General:
* Fix traceback which can occur getting children via relationset
* Add explicit braille handling for ROLE_PAGE so we update the line in
Evince
* Change default value of fallbackOnUnicodeData to False
* Attempt to eliminate verbal spewage for links which lack meaningful
information
* Ignore text-selection-changed events from Gecko objects with no text
* Hack around yet another missing object:state-changed:focused event
for Gtk+
* Provide a symbolic variant of the app icon
* Work around a missing object:state-changed:focused event from
LibreOffice
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Uwe Geercken
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
=========
3.16.1 - 15 Apr 2015
General:
* Don't search for replicants for Gecko zombies when pages are being
loaded because it can lead to a hang.
* Don't present position in list for the top-level menu of a context
menu
* Only present placeholder text if the entry lacks a value
* Use labelAndName instead of labelOrName with toggle buttons so
that we fallback on description when name has not been provided
* Work around yet another missing object:state-changed:focused event
from Gtk+
* Use datadir and localedir and not DATADIRNAME
* Fix for bug 746400 - Speak child position breaks Qt menu item
presentation
* Fix issue where translated symbols were being presented in English
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Zahari Yurukov
is Icelandic Sveinn í Felli
it Italian Milo Casagrande
ru Russian Stas Solovey
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.16.0
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
it Italian Milo Casagrande
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
=========
3.15.92 - 17 March 2015
General:
* Refine the heuristic used to identify layout tables
* Do not speak table details when verbosity level is brief
* Check for the new(ish) accessible roles for documents in structural
navigation (needed for table navigation in recent versions of Writer)
* Check for Zombie accessibles in Writer's onCaretMoved() so that we
don't get tripped up by deleted paragraphs
* Be less aggressive weeding out layout-only siblings for position
and set size, because getting it 100% right is non-performant
* Don't look for zombie replicants in ROLE_EMBEDDED objects (fixes
hang with Firefox)
* Use the default object generation for ROLE_EMBEDDED (fixes bogus
information presentation with Firefox)
* Correct outdated links to documentation in translator comments, and
fix translator comment symbol for bowtie operator
* Present the line rather than all object contents when navigating by
landmark
* Update our landmark role list to bring it into alignment with the
ARIA spec
* Do not rely on displayedText() when determining if a table cell is
blank
* Update position in Gecko content when SayAll is interrupted
* Several fixes related to Gecko killing accessible objects
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bs Bosnian Samir Ribic
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.15.91 - 2 March 2015
General:
* Add optional start and end offset arguments for getTextLineAtCaret()
* Fix multiple issues related to presentation of widgets and web content
* Don't rely on pyatspi's cache for names
* Add support for XDG_VTNR for braille
* Add formatting strings for ROLE_LABEL so that they get presented
* Work around two cases of dead LibreOffice accessible objects
* Ignore text insertions from menus and menu items
* Add support to identify and present Evolution's Status column header
* Set sayAllOnLoad's default value to False for Evolution
* Add utility methods to identify WebKitGtk content in Evolution
* Add some sanity checking to handle dead accessibles from Evolution
* Validate reportedly-selected children
* Suppress bogus "not selected" presentation in Evo's Messages tree
* Handle a missing event from a mystery object in the Evolution GUI
* Add support for Evolution's GUI
* Implement ability to use structural navigation commands during SayAll
* Remove clickCount from orca_state.py
* Move lastKeyEchoTime to speechdispatcherfactory.py
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Christian Kirbach
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles,
Miguel Rodríguez Núñez
fr French Julien Hardelin
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.15.4 - 19 January 2015
General:
* Implement ability to "rewind" and "fast forward" during SayAll
* Add support for presentation of mathematical alphanumeric symbols and
operators
* Fix for bug 742293 - Application-specific shortcut rebinding doesn't
persist
* Eliminate some false positives in the label inference code
* Fix several bugs related to sayAll
* Improve support for presentation of nested tables during structural
navigation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.14.3 - 03 December 2014
Gecko:
* Fix several issues related to focus mode toggling on pages which
set focus upon page load
* Exclude layout-only/presentational tables in structural navigation
LibreOffice:
* Handle a false positive in isSameObject() which prevented paragraph
presentation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
=========
3.14.2 - 10 November 2014
Gecko:
* Update the position and command state after a mouse click
* Don't descend tables in findReplicant() - fixes a hang
* More hack removal and reworking of find{Next,Previous}Object()
* Don't switch to focus mode if the object is a text block element
* Check for both focusable and focused states when determining text
block elements
* Only use focused format type for objects which are not text block
elements
* Generate the rolename for links even if they were not "just entered"
* Suppress tutorial messages for focus mode widgets when not in focus
mode
* Prevent repeating of labels and tutorial messages in entries
* Speak text role for Gecko apps when not in document content
* Remove FOCUSED and SELECTED states as requirements for focus mode
General:
* Do not present tutorial messages if the object is not the locusOfFocus
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
it Italian Milo Casagrande
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
nb Norwegian bokmål Åka Sikrom
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
=========
3.14.0 - 23 September 2014
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Benjamin Steinwender
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
sk Slovak Dušan Kazik
=========
3.13.92 - 17 September 2014
Gecko:
* Implement support for "layout" mode and "object" mode, the latter
being what is traditionally found in Windows screen readers and
which will hopefully make the switch to GNU/Linux easier.
* Continued reworking of caret navigation by line to improve accuracy
and responsiveness and to eliminate getting stuck and looping
* Fix several issues of structural navigation looping
* Allow Orca's navigation commands to work even when content is being
loaded, which solves bugs like inability to navigate during a file
download
* Fix many bugs related to label inference
* Use the speech and braille generators rather than manually creating
the strings in the script
* Present the accessible description for elements given focus via
caret navigation and structural navigation
* Do not announce clickables if verbosity level is set to brief
* Add a command to toggle speech verbosity levels on the fly
* Fix a bogus tutorial message being presented for non-editable text
Other:
* Enable autostart for MATE and Cinnamon
* Fix the "bad content sent to speech.speak" bug
* Fix bug preventing binding and rebinding of commands in laptop layout
* Include foreground and background colors in the default spoken text
attributes (Note that this only impacts new configurations.)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sk Slovak Peter Vágner
=========
3.13.91 - 2 September 2014
Gecko:
* Significant reworking of caret navigation by line to improve accuracy
and responsiveness and to eliminate getting stuck and looping
* Fix many bugs related to caret navigation by word
* Add support for aria-hidden="true"
* Present longdesc and clickable as part of Where Am I
* Fix an issue with structural navigation into list boxes
* Fix several bugs in presentation of Gecko form fields
* Fix several issues related to braille presentation of ARIA widgets
* Fix a regression introduced in 3.13.90 which caused Thunderbird
message composition to not be properly displayed in braille
LibreOffice:
* Speak cell coordinates for Writer tables
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
=========
3.13.90 - 19 August 2014
Gecko:
* Create Browse and Focus modes to make acceess to web content and web
apps more reliable
* Add support for presentation of longdesc and "clickable" elements
* Add support for structural navigation by image and by "clickable"
* Present the accessible description when giving focus to objects
* Present expanded state for links which can be expanded
* Fix a number of bugs that caused Orca to loop and/or skip over content
* Fix a number of bugs related to presentation of ARIA
* Improve presentation of list boxes
* Eliminate double-brailling of links in list items
* Fix a couple of SayAll bugs
Evince:
* Fix a traceback that occurred when form field widgets lost focus
* Fix a hang that can occur when using structural navigation with forms
Other:
* Check for accessible names when presenting entries
* Fix bug 732550 - Orca does not announce selection state toggling in Qt
* Fix for Orca going silent when speaking of child position is enabled
* Map 'marco' to 'metacity' in the script manager
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis,
Maria Mavridou
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Lasse Liehu
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.13.3 - 23 June 2014
General:
* Implement support for presenting color names instead of RGB values
* Fix several issues in character echo
* Use the same string when presenting U+00A8
* Present the acute accent using the same name when typing and reading
* Stop using speechdispatcher's KEY command for printable key echo
* Don't double-present punctuation when keyecho and character echo are
both enabled
* Always respect braille verbosity levels when presenting widget roles
* Fall back on sayCharacter() when there is no word for sayWord() to
present
* Don't present focus changes when navigating by character or word in
Writer
* Fix several LibreOffice UI-presentation related issues
* Fix a regression in changing rate and pitch on the fly
* Present focused scrollbars
* Add support for ROLE_DIAL
* Fix for Orca presenting checked tri-state checkboxes as partially
checked
* Handle an instance of Gtk+ failing to emit object:state-changed:focused
events
* Handle some common variations in values for absent text attributes
* Do explicit checks for window-like roles when getting the top-level
object
* Remove the non-performant, buggy heuristic hack to find displayed
labels
* Convert application settings to use the settings manager's backend
* Use the default script's onTextDeleted callback for gnome-terminal
* Some pre-gsettings-migration cleanup
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Ihar Hrachyshka
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
cs Czech Marek Černocký
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
ne Nepali Him Prasad Gautam
=========
3.13.1 - 1 May 2014
General:
* Update the locusOfFocus when when caret moves in a focused object
in Evince
* Ensure we don't use structural navigation in editable messages
in Thunderbird
* Use the Gecko script's useCaretNavigationModel() in Thunderbird
* Present the replaced obj char for apps which lack AtkHyperlinkImpl
support
* Fix a couple of issues related to composing HTML messages in
Thunderbird
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
=========
3.12.1 - 15 April 2014
General:
* Update documentation
* Clear saved page-loading state when Gecko script is deactivated
* Add support for ROLE_PAGE now that Evince uses it
* Prefer the name of a button, even if it implements AtkText
* Eliminate a false positive identifying selected text with caret-moved
events
* Fix presentation of caret-moved events for Firefox's autocompletes
* Add an explicit check for KP_0 as the Orca Modifier plus Shift
* Eliminate some chattiness presenting combo boxes
* Don't treat the root label as an unrelated label
* Handle yet another case of missing object:state-changed:focused
events for Gtk+
* Filter out some superfluous name-changed events from Gtk+ apps
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Maria Thukididu
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sk Slovak Peter Vágner
=========
3.12.0 - 24 March 2014
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
an Aragonese Jorge Pérez Pérez
da Danish Ask H. Larsen
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
it Italian Milo Casagrande
=========
3.11.92 - 18 March 2014
General:
* Filter out a number of extraneous/unwanted accessibility events from
Evolution
* Eliminate some text-selection and typeahead search "chattiness"
* Generate ancestors for new dialogs even if there is no prior focused
object
* Fix for bug 726395 - Sometimes flat review presents non-localized
rolenames
* Ignore bogus focus claims from LibreOffice fillers and panels
* Add support for non-modal GtkPopover
* Use explicit keyword rather than positional argument for GSettings
schema id
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Pau Iranzo
fr French Julien Hardelin, Claude Paroz,
Alexandre Franke
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pl Polish Paweł Żołnowski
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
zh_CN Chinese (China) Wylmer Wang
=========
3.11.91 - 4 March 2014
General:
* Remove the isTextArea check from sayAll
* Work around several additional missing state-changed:focused events
* More tweaking of the new spellcheck support
* Add support for structural navigation by link regardless of visited
state
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
=========
3.11.90 - 18 February 2014
General:
* Create new, uniform spellcheck support and implement for Gedit and
Thunderbird
* Fix the live region announcement review keybindings
* Fix a mysterious Brltty crash triggered by Orca
* Add a sanity check to hopefully work around a Thunderbird timeout
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
=========
3.11.5 - 4 February 2014
Please note: This cycle, Orca is getting an overhaul with much of the
code being rewritten in preparation for the focus: event deprecation.
I am also taking this opportunity to remove hacks and improve Orca's
performance. While every effort is being made to ensure no regressions
are introduced, please remember that 3.11.x is unstable. If you find a
bug present only in 3.11.x, please report it on the Orca list.
LibreOffice:
* Fix several braille panning issues
* Fix several issues with presentation of dynamic headers
Gecko:
* Handle changes in the Firefox find toolbar hierarchy and events
* Fix a couple of bugs related to presenting a new ARIA alert or dialog
* Don't present text-inserted events for non-ARIA labels
* Only treat properly-marked up ARIA live regions as live regions
* Present listbox details as part of presenting the first focused child
* Do not treat 'busy' state changes from ARIA widgets as document loads
* Don't repeat the "alert" role when navigating in ARIA alerts
* Use the default updateBraille() for ARIA widgets in Gecko content
* Handle more instances of bogus empty text objects from Gecko
* Present find results from Gecko in braille
Epiphany/WebKitGtk:
* Create a custom script for Epiphany to handle window activation and
deactivation better
* Ignore WebKitGtk's claim that objects of ROLE_LIST implement AtkText
* Handle ROLE_DOCUMENT_WEB for WebKitGtk content
* Improve saving and restoring the Epiphany caret context
General:
* Fix quite a few "chattiness" issues
* Fix for bug 708664 - Selection and link indicators messing up braille
* Eliminate duplicated strings when brailling widget information
* Fix presentation of Gedit's find feature results
* Rewrite Orca's support for gnome-search-tool
* Present a message, and don't regenerate speech, when a bookmark is
entered
* Add the ability to skip ancestor generation by role on a per-script
basis
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
tg Tajik Victor Ibragimov
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.11.4 - 14 January 2014
Please note: This cycle, Orca is getting an overhaul with much of the
code being rewritten in preparation for the focus: event deprecation.
I am also taking this opportunity to remove hacks and improve Orca's
performance. While every effort is being made to ensure no regressions
are introduced, please remember that 3.11.x is unstable. If you find a
bug present only in 3.11.x, please report it on the Orca list.
Gecko:
* Use pyatspi.cache.DEFAULT instead of pyatspi.cache.ALL to prevent
incorrect caching of object attributes
* Fix a bug isNavigableAria() which was causing us to override native
ARIA navigation incorrectly
* Update the locusOfFocus when the caret moves to a Gecko anchor
* Prevent double-speaking autocompleted text in Thunderbird
LibreOffice:
* Don't treat lack of previous row as a row change in Calc
* Strip out periods in addition to the localized "cell" for Calc
coordinates
* Recover gracefully when the Calc inputline toolbar is hidden
preventing location of the formula text
General:
* Began rewrite of text-selection-changed support
* Speak ROLE_INFO_BAR information
* Work around a missing state-changed event for Gtk+ submenus
* Work around a missing state-changed event for Gtk+ table column
headers
* Handle more cases for object:active-descendant:changed
* Fix for bug 721017 - orca has an automagic dependency on liblouis
for braille support
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
an Aragonese Jorge Pérez Pérez
de German Christian Kirbach
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
tg Tajik Victor Ibragimov
=========
3.11.3 - 16 December 2013
Please note: This cycle, Orca is getting an overhaul with much of the
code being rewritten in preparation for the focus: event deprecation.
I am also taking this opportunity to remove hacks and improve Orca's
performance. While every effort is being made to ensure no regressions
are introduced, please remember that 3.11.x is unstable. If you find a
bug present only in 3.11.x, please report it on the Orca list.
General:
* Filter out some chrome events when inferring live regions
* Fixes to prevent hangs when accessing WebKitGtk content
* Fix for a traceback when Thunderbird becomes unresponsive
* Add a check to the Gecko script's onCaretMoved() to be sure the caret
actually moved
* Fix bug in column header labels for the links list dialog
* Ignore selection-changed events when the current item's selection is
toggled via Space
* Filter out some duplicate state-changed events
* Restore the locus of focus when Alt+Tabbing back into Firefox
* Fix a chattiness issue for Eclipse
* Add a sanity check to prevent a hang when using Firefox
* Clean up the Gecko script's onCaretMoved()
* Add handling for row headers in structural navigation
* Fix for Orca not presenting the row when a table regains focus
* Fix menu-related handling (aka hacks) in the Java toolkit script
* Work on the test harness and regression tests
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira
tg Tajik Victor Ibragimov
zh_CN Chinese simplified 甘 露
=========
3.11.2 - 19 November 2013
Please note: This cycle, Orca is getting an overhaul with much of the
code being rewritten in preparation for the focus: event deprecation.
I am also taking this opportunity to remove hacks and improve Orca's
performance. While every effort is being made to ensure no regressions
are introduced, please remember that 3.11.x is unstable. If you find a
bug present only in 3.11.x, please report it on the Orca list.
Gecko:
* Fix for two hangs in Firefox
* Try to minimize some of the excessive chattiness with Gecko radio
buttons and list items
* Stop Orca from repeating the end of an autocompleted address in
Thunderbird
* Fix and improve alert presentation for Thunderbird and Firefox
* Finding the next/previous caret should not call isLayoutOnly()
because it leads to lag
* Implement the "list of" dialog for ARIA landmarks
* Handle timeouts in liveregions._getMessage() more gracefully
* Ignore text-changed events from Thunderbird's status bar
* Stop doing focus grabs when setting the caret position
LibreOffice:
* Present "has formula" when a Calc cell with a formula gains focus
* Prevent Orca from announcing "misspelled" with each keypress
* Work around some brokenness in LibreOffice tables
* Present table cell text, if present, rather than the name in Writer
* Fix structural navigation for tables in LibreOffice Writer
General:
* Fix for Orca becoming silent when canceling out of the Preferences
dialog with unapplied synthesizer changes
* Fix to prevent Orca becoming silent when a broken/incomplete value
interface is encountered
* Do not enqueue accessible events when Orca is being shut down as it
can cause Orca to hang
* Do not exit learn mode or repeat the prompt if no application
shortcuts are found
* Fix for traceback in the Eclipse script
* Make the "checked" and "pressed" strings context-specific
* Register only one set of script event listeners; not one for each
script
* Fix for Orca double-presenting the contents of Nautilus's Places panel
* Fix to prevent Orca from double-speaking name-changed events
* Simplify and fix bugs in the speech generator's ancestry generation
* Check in the default script's onCaretMoved() if the caret really moved
* Use F2 and F3 rather than 1 and 2 to display shortcuts in Learn Mode
* Store basic point-of-reference info when the locusOfFocus changes
* Be sure we have line text before adding a voice to present it
* Workaround for bug 709447 - Orca segfaults when run with the wayland
backend
* Remove many old and now obsolete hacks that were slowing Orca down
* Rely upon object:state-changed events instead of focus: events
* Create toolkit scripts for Gtk+ 2, Gtk+ 3, Qt
* Rename the "CALLY" script "clutter" and create a new gnome-shell
script
* Put logic needed for all scripts into the default script and remove
it from the individual scripts
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Dimitris Spingos,
Efstathios Iosifidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Balázs Úr
ml Malayalam mshameers, Anish A
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.10.0 - 24 September 2013
General:
* Fix for bug 708497 - Orca fails to present GtkButton children of a
GtkListBox row
* Fix for bug 707708 - Orca does not shut down unused synthesizers
which were initialized within the preferences dialog
* Remove a leftover call to drawOutline() that was missed
* Fix traceback in the Gecko script
* Update the man page so that it doesn't contain false information
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
=========
3.9.92 - 16 September 2013
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
General:
* Improved support for presenting GtkListBox, GtkListBox items, and
their child widgets
* Present accessible name-changed events for the active frame
* Present expandable and expanded states, state changes for menu items
* Fix isSameObject() so that it is more performant and has less false
positives
* Fall back on child index when spatially comparing objects with bogus
extents
* Fall back on displayed text when flat-reviewing icons that lack name
and description
* Remove the "outline" debugging tool. It was always a hack; now it also
causes focus loss
* Fix for bug 703472 - Fix Makefiles so orca can be a noarch package
* Update orca executable for the recent python dir changes
* Remove deprecated calls to GLib and GObject threads_init
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Ihar Hrachyshka
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Benjamin Steinwender
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Claude Paroz
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto,
Rafael Ferreira
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
tj Tajik Victor Ibragimov
=========
3.9.91 - 3 September 2013
General:
* Fix for bug 644515 - Text attribute presentation is completely
broken for Gecko
* Workaround for BackSpace and Delete text changed events not being
presented
* Handle partially-implemented value interfaces with range of 0 to 1
* Fix to present the new sliders in gnome-shell
Performance:
* Fix for bug 616847 - Only perform braille functions when braille
is enabled
* Add object:active-descendant-changed to events that may be part
of an "event flood"
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.9.90 - 21 August 2013
General
* Unbind the "quit" command because gnome-settings-daemon now includes
Super+Alt+S
* Prevent Orca from constantly saying "not selected" in gnome-documents
* Present the table dimensions when a table claims focus
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
tj Tajik Victor Ibragimov
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.9.5 - 31 July 2013
Evince
* Handle text selection events that cross into a different page
* Present the Evince caret-navigation infobar
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
eo Esperanto Kristjan SCHMIDT
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ne Nepali Him Prasad Gautam,
Jiro Matsuzawa
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Júnior Pires
sl Slovenian Andrej Žnidaršič
tj Tajik Victor Ibragimov
=========
3.9.4 - 9 July 2013
General
* Fix for bug 703645 - Use the default locale if no family is specified
for the default voice
* Remove deprecated stock items
* Fix for bug 672195 - Key bindings are disabled if num lock on even in
laptop mode
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto
sl Slovenian Piotr Drąg
=========
3.9.3 - 18 June 2013
General
* Fix for bug 701787 - Add structural navigation support for Evince
documents
* Fix for traceback when switching back to English profile
* Fix the accessible apps commandline option
* Fix for bug 701743 - Orca's word echo does not echo first word typed
in an empty libreoffice writer document
* Fix for bug 701549 - orca-autostart.desktop unconditionally enables
speech and braille
* Add mapping from gnome-terminal-server to gnome-terminal
* Remove the braille-monitor checkbox from the GUI
* Fix for bug 671755 - Orca doesn't announce the AltGr key
* Fix for bug 701166 - "Screen reader preferences"; not "Orca preferences"
* Fix for bug 701187 - "Screen reader settings"; not "Orca settings"
* And a number of similar changes (e.g. the name of the Orca modifier,
along with various other places where "Orca" was being used instead
of "screen reader")
* Misc refactoring and cleanup
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
sk Slovak Peter Vágner
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Cheng-Chia Tseng
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Cheng-Chia Tseng
=========
3.9.2 - 27 May 2013
General:
* Fix for bug 700831 - Enabling "Screen reader" tells me "Welcome to
Orca"
* Begin migration of Orca's Evolution script to use Orca's WebKitGtk
support
* Use the default script's SayAll functionality in Gedit
Text Interface Simplification Work and Fixes:
* Fix the hang on espeak.sourceforge.net
* Remove an old hack from the Gecko script which now causes us to get
stuck on some pages.
* Fix the repeated line presentation in Thunderbird
* Use TEXT_BOUNDARY_WORD_START instead of TEXT_BOUNDARY_WORD_END for
the Gecko script's goNextWord()
* Use TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE_START instead of TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE_END
for SayAll
* Use getTextAtOffset() instead of getTextAfterOffset()
* Use getTextAtOffset() instead of getTextBeforeOffset()
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Ihar Hrachyshka
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
it Italian Milo Casagrande
ne Nepali Him Prasad Gautam
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
Alexandre Conte
Enrico Nicoletto
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
=========
3.8.0 - 25 March 2013
General
* Fix for bug 696334 - traceback when analyzing a checkbox for the
flat review context
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
an Aragonese Jorge Pérez Pérez
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
de German Mario Blättermann
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Bruno Brouard
Alexandre Franke
hi Hindi Chandan Kumar
it Italian Luca Ferretti
pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
tg Tadjik Victor Ibragimov
=========
3.7.92 - 19 March 2013
General
* Swap the column ordering in the Links List dialog
* Fix a couple of missed moved strings related to profile-based
language switching
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
Enrico Nicoletto
sk Slovak Peter Mráz
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ug Uyghur Gheyret Kenji
=========
3.7.91 - 4 March 2013
New Features
* Signifcant work and progress on profile-based, on-the-fly language
switching. It's nearly here! :)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Mario Blättermann
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ne Nepali Him Prasad Gautam
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ug Uyghur Gheyret Kenji
=========
3.7.90 - 19 February 2013
New Features
* Much work and progress on profile-based, on-the-fly language
switching.
* Better "list shortcuts" and learn mode support and associated
hack removal.
* More refinements and additions to the new "list of" dialogs:
- Implement the "'list of' dialog" feature for tables.
- Try harder to position the caret when jumping to an object in
the navlist.
- Select the row associated with the locusOfFocus in the
"list of" dialogs.
- Present the number of results for the "list of" dialogs.
- Update Orca's keybindings related to bookmarks and "list of"
commands.
* Add event listeners for, and presentation of, table row and column
re-ordering.
Bug Fixes
* Filter out dead childNodes from GtkTreeView.
* Present the Orca version upon first entering learn mode (to
compensate for there no longer being an About dialog).
* Handle attempts to start Orca from the console more gracefully.
* Get Orca to handle table rows which lack ROLE_TABLE_ROW.
* Get rid of "odd hacky thing... somewhat drawn from Gnopernicus" (!?!)
* Do not include anchors for structural navigation links.
* Do not filter out egg-list-box labels based on STATE_SHOWING.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
ml Malayalam Anish A
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ug Uyghur Gheyret Kenji
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.7.5 - 5 February 2013
New Feature
* Structural navigation objects are now navigable by "list of" dialogs
Bug Fixes
* Much better handling of egg-list-box for the new panels in
gnome-control-center
* Fix for bug 693159 - Orca doesnt echo words in gnome-terminal
* Do not attempt to store an AtspiTable in a dictionary (fixes the
presentation of cells when navigating in LibreOffice Calc)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ne Nepali Him Prasad Gautam
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ug Uyghur Sahran, Gheyret Kenji
=========
3.7.4 - 14 January 2013
New Commands (Unbound keybindings)
* Cycle amongst saved settings profiles
* Copy and append text from flat review to the clipboard
Web Related
* Fix for bug 677615 - In Firefox www.google.com links not presented in
braille
* Fix for bug 675362 - Orca doesn't speak certain radio button labels in
Firefox
* Fix for bug 669377 - Cannot read web pages while file download dialog
present
* Always use the Collection interface for structural navigation and page
summary
* Do not try to infer labels from widgets deeply buried in table cells
* Changes to make Orca's generic label inference code work better with
Gecko
* Move the Gecko script to use Orca's label inference code
* When Gecko reports the end offset is -1, use the characterCount instead
* Be sure we have a last input event before checking its time for live
region presentation
Other Bug Fixes
* Fix for bug 684951 - Do not present 'icon' and 'canvas' rolenames if
verbosity is brief
* Fix for bug 591871 - Orca says "off" for all push buttons on the
LibreOffice toolbars and doesn't say "on" when it should
* Fix for bug 515817 - Flat review lands on blank line at end of text
area when navigating by previous word
* Get Orca doing a better job of presenting the Evolution Account
Assistant
* Handle caret offset of -1 when getting text for non-focused objects
* Fix for bug 600204 - Mouse Review Errors
* Fix a traceback in the braille monitor
* Change the debug level the script manager prints dead accessible
warnings
Miscellaneous Cruft Removal
* Remove the GNOME2ish locusOfFocusChanged() method from the Evolution
script
* Remove the non-funcutioning Evolution new mail announcement
* Fix another GObject deprecation
* Remove several variables whose value we aren't using
* Remove some obsolete debugging methods
* Remove a check related to ROLE_HTML_CONTAINER from the Gecko script
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
an Aragonese Jorge Pérez Pérez
ar Arabic Khaled Hosny
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sl Slovenian Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič
=========
3.7.3 - 18 December 2012
General
* Provide support to cycle amongst speech-dispatcher's capitalization
presentation options
* Create a generic UI which can be used in element navigation lists
* Add a _getAll() method to structural_navigation.py
* Fix for bug 689486 - Broken links to gnome-user-docs in the orca help
* Remove a missed call to str.decode()
* Make viewing Orca help in Yelp activatable via Learn Mode
* Eliminate the Splash window, Main window, and Quit window
* Increase the default uppercase pitch to 7.0
* Use GLib.source_remove() instead of the deprecated GObject equivalent
* Delete the acroread script
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
=========
3.7.2 - 19 November 2012
NOTE: This is the first real/official Python 3 release of Orca.
General
* Replace deprecated GObject functions with their GLib equivalents
* Improve performance of building flat review context
* Add keywords to the desktop file
* Python 3 compatibility fixes for brlapi
* Fix for bug 687526 - Patch: Orca excepts trying to output exceptions
* Fix for bug 687527 - Handle applications returning 0 as the Value's
minimalIncrement
Gecko
* Fix for bug 674526 - Orca sometimes fails to present download dialog
widgets in Firefox
* Fix for bug 688057 - A page that hangs Orca.
Speech
* Most of the fix for bug 688172 - Orca gets stuck in uppercase pitch
* Fix for Orca continuing to speak when speech is disabled via the
Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug 687239 - Traceback seen in Python 3.3 when there are no
settings saved
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Hendrik Knackstedt
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
=========
3.7.0.100 - 22 October 2012
General
* Use subprocess.Popen() instead of the deprecated os.popen()
* Use for() instead of map() in cleanup()
* Pkill fails to kill Orca in Python 3
* Fix for bug 686189 - Use importlib.import_module() instead of
__import__() and imp.reload() instead of reload()
* Fix for braille email address auto completions in Thunderbird
=========
3.7.0.94 - 15 October 2012
General
* Fix for bug 675288 - Orca doesn't always announce selection changes
in Nautilus 3.6's icon view
* Fix for bug 680228 - In Thunderbird 14.0 e-mail address auto
completion results are not spoken
* Fix for bug 684838 - Orca should present the accessible name of
sliders
* Fix for bug 675656 - Mark Hungarian 8 dot computer braille for
translation
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
cs Czech Lucas Lommer
de German Simon Bienlein, Mario Blättermann
it Italian Milo Casagrande
lv Latvian Rudolfs Mazurs
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
=========
3.7.0.92 - 17 September 2012
General
* LibreOffice Writer documents should be fully readable and navigable
via the braille display
* Fix for bug 683795 - Orca modifier gets stuck on in Bypass Mode
* Fix for bug 683447 - Outdated documentation needs to be removed
* Fix for broken tag in several help translations (Thanks Piotr Drąg!)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Mario Blättermann
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
zh_CN Simplified Chinese TeliuTe
=========
3.7.0.91 - 3 September 2012
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
=========
3.7.0.90 - 20 August 2012
WebKitGtk - Braille Presentation
* Make WebKitGtk content fully braille scrollable without having to
use caret navigation
* Fixes for Orca failing to display certain text-only inline WebKitGtk
lists and sections
* Work around the bogus caretOffset we get for WebKitGtk content which
doesn't have the caret
* Don't display the braille EOL indicator for non-editable WebKitGtk
paragraphs
* Handle cases where the default script returns an empty string for
WebKitGtk content
* Fix for Orca skipping over WebKitGtk list items when scrolling in
braille
* Fix for bug 664557 - Orca does not always reflect the caret location
in braille for WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug 681441 - Orca should present inline lists and sections
from WebKitGtk on the same line in braille
* Fix for bug 681387 - Orca displays no braille when lists which are
not listboxes claim focus in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug 681363 - Do not display roles for non-widget lists, list
items, and panels in WebKitGtk content
General
* Fix for bug 681718 - Cannot enable laptop keyboard layout in Python 3
* Fix for bug 681569 - Unable to bind double-click keybinding if there
is a duplicate single-click keybinding
* Use new documentation infrastructure
* Fix for bug 626032 - substitutions from the pronunciation dictionary
are not being applied when performing say all
* Move Gecko list presentation code into general presentation code
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
=========
3.7.0.5 - 6 August 2012
WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug 677320 - Cannot perform braille scrolling amongst
objects in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug 681294 - SayAll does not work as expected when focus
is on a link in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for traceback when determining whether a MouseButtonEvent
should be ignored
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Dimitris Spingos
hi Hindi chandankumar
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
zh_HK Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.7.0.4 - 16 July 2012
General
* Structural navigation should not kick in when in editable WebKitGtk
objects
* Access object extents as a bounding box
* Fix for bug 679514 - settings_test.py script fails because of some
still remaining yaml files
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
=========
3.7.0.3 - 25 June 2012
General
* Python 3 migration has been completed
* Fix for bug 677748 - Launcher icon needs 256x256 variant
* Fix for Orca not presenting the 'Command not found' label in the
gnome-shell run dialog
* Work around for Orca not presenting the gnome-shell run dialog text
in braille
* Handle text implementations which report a caret offset of -1 when
at the end
* Eliminate unneeded and/or problematic imports
* Remove more old, no-longer-used/needed code
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
fr French Bruno Brouard
=========
3.5.2 - 4 June 2012
For users:
* Improve Orca's presentation of gnome-shell/clutter dialog boxes
* Handle traceback seen with embedded object chars in Yelp
* Fix a bug in the state change notifiers
* Don't ignore MouseButtonEvent instances due to timestamp
* Fix for Orca saying "Primary" for mnemonic Ctrl++
* Fix for bug 659588, Orca presents Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus
accelerators partially-translated
* Fix for speech keybindings failing when no speech settings have
been saved
* Remove the now-redundant 'orca -q/--quit' and 'orca -f/--forcequit'
(pkill works reliably)
* Ensure we eliminate replaced Orca processes
* Handle multiple and alternate installations better
* Eliminate the Orca shell script and cause Orca to run as a single
process rather than two
For translators (whom we love):
* GNOME Goal: Remove markup in messages
* Add translator notes; provide more detail for vague ones
* Workaround for intltool not including translator notes for orca.in
* Fix for bug 675522 - incorrect comment for translators
Other:
* Much work towards the Python 3 migration
* Fix for bug 658834 - Use GDbus via gobject-introspection instead
dbus-python
* Revert "Interim fix for bug 672242"
* Fix for bug 669813 - Remove pyxdg dependency
* Get rid of the forced-qui-prefs when there are no settings.
* Continued general code cleanup
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Bruno Brouard
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
ja Japanese Jiro Matsuzawa
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.5.1 - 30 April 2012
General
* Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented
* Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully
* Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale
* Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt
speech
* Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
te Telugu Sasi Bhushan
=========
3.4.1 - 16 April 2012
GNOME 3
* Present the name change of the suspend/power off menu item
* Prevent nameless panels from delaying presentation of Top Bar button
* Prevent focused objects in gnome-shell dialogs from preempting
presentation of the dialog itself
* Fix for Empathy active descendant presentation getting incorrectly
interrupted
* Minor adjustments to get Orca working with Empathy 3.4
* Fix for bug 672461 - Orca now presents the full file list when the
file chooser is opened
Unity
* Fix for bug 673397 - Using flat review while in Unity Greeter makes
Orca stop presenting screen contents
* Fix for bug 673157 - Unhandled exception when in Unity Greeter
* Fix for bug 673648 - Orca does not present Unity 2d indicators
correctly in braille
Qt
* Fix for Orca incorrectly skipping certain menu item events in KMail
* Fix for bug 673142 - Unhandled exceptions (GError: No such object
path) when using Skype
WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug 673540 - List and list item structural navigation
sometimes fails
* Prevent Orca from double-presenting focused links with structural
navigation in lists
* Fix for bug 672464 - Orca double presents headings which are links
* Fix braille rolename presentation
* Fix for bug 673757 - Pages with alt attribute present, but not
actually set, results in traceback
* Fix a UnicodeWarning
Gecko
* Fix for bug 673715 - Orca double-echoes keys pressed in Thunderbird
address fields
* Fix for bug 673567 - List in Firefox preferences dialog not presented
LibreOffice
* Fix for bug 672787 - Unhandled exceptions from dead accessibles in
Calc
* Fix for bug 673530 - Orca multi-presents the focused cell's contents
when arrowing in Calc
* Fix for bug 672953 - Orca is presenting extra "input line frame"
announcements in LibreOffice Calc
Orca and AT-SPI
* Handle the new AT-SPI2 timeout errors
* Add additional debugging info to help track down hard-to-reproduce
issues
* Use os.makedirs instead of os.mkdir if the XDG data home directory
doesn't exist
* Disable braille monitor if the import fails
* Ensure 'orca -t' works even without a Desktop
* Fix for bug 673336 - Problems (re)binding commands with Caps_Lock
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Serratosa
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
de German Christian Kirbach
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
=========
3.4.0 - 26 March 2012
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
it Italian Luca Ferretti
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
te Telugu Krishna Babu K
zh_CN Simplified Chinese YunQiang Su
=========
3.3.92 - 19 March 2012
General
* Fix for bug 672276 - Tracebacks seen when interacting with
Thunderbird's message filter rules dialog
* Fix for bug 672242 - Orca presents an extra panel on places&devices
and documents search result
* Sanity check that we have a desktop to get before we attempt to get
its apps
* Fix for bug 659839 - Gecko combobox selection is no longer presented
* Do not treat "busy indicator" progress bars as progress bars with
values
* Handle errors seen when restarting gnome-shell
* Handle GErrors which prevent Orca from speaking menu items in Skype
* Attend to object:state-changed:expanded events for push buttons
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
lv Latvian Rudolfs Mazurs
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Antonio Fernandes C. Neto
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
te Telugu Sasi bhushan Boddepalli
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
=========
3.3.91 - 5 March 2012
General
* Check for (and where appropriate present) expandable and expanded
states for toggle buttons and push buttons
* Present gnome-shell notifications (also requires fix for bug 648645)
* Fix for bug 670547 - Module for notification messages should use
SYSTEM_VOICE
* Handle Earlybird (Thunderbird pre-release) as Thunderbird
* Fix for bug 666424 - toolkits/gecko/script.py:updateBraille can
cause traceback
* Fix for several UnicodeEncodeError and UnicodeDecodeError bugs
* Fix the presentation of mnemonics which are accented letters
* Present the localized rolenames we get via pyatspi rather than use
Orca's pre-pyatspi rolename code for non-abbreviated rolenames
* Fix for bug 670596 - Please don't present entry roles as text roles
* Remove the old settings migration code from orca.py
* Fix for getListOfShortcuts() incorrectly eliminating commands
* Add an orca-customizations.py option to override the disabled main
window
* Fix for Orca not using the specified debug-file when debug flag is
not also provided
* Fix man page errors
* Avoid incorrectly detecting python modules which not installed
* Fix for bug 670827 - Contraction Table: need translator comment
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Kasia Bondarava, Ihar Hrachyshka
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
fr French Bruno Brouard
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
=========
3.3.90 - 20 February 2012
General
* Only set the locusOfFocus when gnome-shell selection changes to
selected
* Clean up Orca's locating and sorting of "unrelated" labels
* Clean up Orca's code for capturing of keys for rebinding
* Delete an old setting we no longer use (from the pyatspi1 port)
* Get rid of orca_state.focusHistory: We no longer use it but we
keep storing it
* Move input event handlers out of orca.py
* Fix for bug 596359 - Should set the process name to "orca"
* Fix for bug 628473 - orca.py should use argparse instead of getopts
* Fix for bug 669632 - Orca does not present correct mnemonic for menu
items
* Fix notify-osd script to listen for accessible-name/value signals
only
* Orca needs to speak value changes for objects of ROLE_COLOR_CHOOSER
* Use dbus rather than gsettings to check if accessibility support and
screen reader are enabled
* Remove forced terminal-setup; enable accessibility support instead
* Fix a traceback which prevented certain keybindings from binding
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
be Belarusian Kasia Bondarava
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
=========
3.3.5 - 6 February 2012
General
* Add handling for RuntimeError now that we get them from pyatspi2
* Fix for bug 669216 - Orca's console setup option to log out the
user no longer works
* Fix for bug 668880 - traceback in unity-panel-service
* Fix for bug 668472 - LookupError causes messages in Thunderbird
to not be readable
Keyboard and Keybindings
* Fix for bug 666463 - Orca needs to present the real modifier for
'Primary'
* Fix for Bug 667717 - Pressing the key combination for time/date after
any other Orca keyboard shortcut causes the date to be spoken.
* Fix for the regressions from the keyboard-related refactoring from
the last unstable release. (Many thanks to all the users who tested!)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
te Telugu Praveen Illa
zh_HK Traditional Chinese - HongKong Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese - Taiwan Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.3.4 - 16 January 2012
Stability and Performance
* Explicitly handle dead accessible objects to prevent triggering
crashes in GNOME Shell
* Refactor InputEvent handling so that it is more performant and
less convoluted
* Get rid of the fake window:activate event as it is no longer
required and may be triggering window manager warnings
* Move wayward event management functionality to the Event Manager
* Fix for the problem of updatePunctuationLevel() causing breakage
for Emacspeak users
* Fix for bug 666628 - gdk_keymap_translate_keyboard_state() expects
Gdk.ModifierType; not int
* Fix for bug 666594 - app-specific preferences cannot be saved for
certain configurations
Keyboard and Keybindings
* Speak state changes in locking keys independent of key echo
* Make it possible to use the NumPad as expected in the Desktop Layout
* Remove the redundant "alternative" keybinding functionality
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Bruno Brouard
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
ja Japanese Jiro MATSUZAWA
mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
=========
3.3.3 - 19 December 2011
General
* Fix for bug 665769 - Preferences not saved or restored correctly
due to comparing unicode and utf-8 strings
* Several fixes to help Orca better cope with dead and vanishing
accessible objects
* Fix for bug 666416 - Leading ellipsis cause incorrect speech output
* Fix for bug 666060 - Orca does not always speak guessed form field
labels when structural navigation is used
* Fix for bug 665288 - Orca's script manager cannot adequately handle
multiple "unknown" applications which embed content from other
toolkits
* Fix for bug 665191 - Orca fails to use the correct toolkit script
for "unknown" applications
Keybindings
* Fix for bug 658122 - Caps_Lock should not be toggled when Orca
commands are used in laptop layout
* Fix for bug 665804 - Problems binding and rebinding commands with
Caps_Lock and Shift
Flat Review
* Fix for bug 664466 - Orca's flat review cannot access the top line
of gnome-terminal console
* Work around for bug 665522 - Flat Review broken in Gecko apps with
AT-SPI2
WebKitGtk
* Implement label inference (aka "label guess") functionality
* Add support for speech presentation of embedded object characters
* Fix for Bug 665586 - Orca does not present the selected menu /
menu item for Dojo widgets
* Fix for bug 665614 - Orca does not present selection changes
in radio button groups when the arrow keys are used
* Fix for bug 664396 - List containing links is not brailled properly
* Add LIST_ITEM to the roles treated as widgets in onFocus()
* Fix for Orca speaking text table cell role and selection state
* Adjust getObjectsFromEOCs to deal with unexpected accessible
hyperlink indices
* Fix for bug 665223 - WebKitGtk-based application scripts should be
consolidated
Cruft Removal
* Fix for bug 665216 - Remove Orca's support for Gecko-based Yelp v2
* Fix for bug 664651 - Remove the legacy magnification code
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Gabor Karsay
el Greek Simos Xenitellis
Vagelis Mamalakis
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Bruno Brouard
Laurent Coudeur
Julien Hardelin
lv Latvian Peteris Krisjanis
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
te Telugu Praveen Illa
=========
3.3.2 - 21 November 2011
General
* Fix for bug #664386 - Orca does not always present image links in
WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #664384 - Need to move getLinkBasename() functionality
out of Gecko script so all scripts can use it
* Fix for bug #659023 - Orca does not speak the desktop icon names in
fallback mode if tutorial messages are enabled
* Fix for bug #661893 - Viewing package list of a www.launchpad.net PPA
causes Orca to stop working on Firefox 7.0.1
* Fix for bug #660099 - Cannot re-bind Orca keybindings via Preferences
dialog
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
te Telugu A Mohan Vamsee
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
=========
3.3.1 - 24 October 2011
General
* Fix for bug 661706 - Sanity check needed in Gecko script's
getBottomOfFile() to ensure we have a "last object"
* Fix for bug 659122 - UnicodeDecodeError and UnicodeEncodeError keep
cropping up since introspection
* Fix for bug 659122 - Traceback presenting time and date
* Fix for bug 660163 - Traceback when try to edit a keybinding
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
zh_CN Simplified Chinese YunQiang Su
=========
3.1.92 - 19 September 2011
General:
* Fix for bug 659054 - Orca fails to present decimal values of
GtkScale widgets in Gtk+ 3
* Fix for bug 659379 - Orca is not presenting panel menus and menu
items in fallback mode
* Fix for bug 659264 - Return in onFocus if the object is not focused
* Fix for bug 659122 - Unicode decode error traceback with speech
generation if I using hungarian locale
* Fix for bug 617833 - Orca should indicate state of NumLock key
* Fix for bug 652485 - Gtk+ Deprecations (Remainder of the work)
* Fix for bug 659015 - The mnemonic widget property on the voice page
is absent for several widgets
* Fix for bug 658134 - Lines with unexpected characters are not always
displayed in braille by Orca
* Fix for bug 658781 - Some text not spoken at all since gobject
introspection changes in orca 3.1.9x.
* Fix for bug 658993 - Two GtkGrid spacing issues
Build:
* Fix for bug 659092 - Do not reference non-existing doc figures
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ast Asturian Xandru Armesto
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Pau Iranzo
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Christian Kirbach
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Jorge González,
Daniel Mustieles
fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
fr French Bruno Brouard
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
it Italian Luca Ferretti
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rudolfs Mazurs
pa Punjabi Amanpreet Singh Alam
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Yinghua Wang
zh_HK Traditional Chinese - HongKong Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese - Taiwan Chao-Hsiung Liao
=========
3.1.91 - 5 September 2011
General
* Fix for bug 658141 - Need to add support for the 'placeholder-text'
object attribute
* Fix for bug 658133 - Firefox lines which begin with bullets are not
always presented by Orca
* Fix for bug 657732 - stopSpeechOnActiveDescendant shouldn't cut off
the presentation of a name-change
* Fix for bug 657902 - Remove static binding cruft from configure.ac
and acinclude.m4
Documentation
* Began update of the Orca 3.2 documentation
* Fix for bug 655642 - Problems in the docs
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Jorge González
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
ru Russian Anatol Kamynin, Yuri Myasoedov
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
=========
3.1.90 - 29 August 2011
General
* Fix for bug 626254 - Migrate from PyGTK to PyGObject introspection-
based bindings
* Fix for bug 652485 - Remove deprecated (or soon-to-be deprecated)
GtkBox, GtkTable, etc. and use GtkGrid instead.
* Fix for bug 657646 - Default stopSpeechOnActiveDescendantChanged()
should not be so restrictive
* Fix for bug 657579 - Orca should not present tooltips shown as a
result of mouse hovering unless the 'present tooltips' setting is
enabled
Gecko
* Fix for bug 599361 - Significant delay building up the contents
of certain lines in Firefox
* Fix for bug 650904 - Work around AT-SPI2 caching issues with
Thunderbird
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
de German Mario Blättermann
es Spanish Gonzalo Sanhueza, Jorge González
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
sr Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
ug Uyghur Abduxukur Abdurixit, Sahran
=========
3.1.5 - 15 August 2011
General
* Fix for bug 639535 - KeyError: 'profile' traceback; Orca won't
launch
* Fix for bug 654923 - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn value for autostart
desktop file
* Fix for bug 656305 - Improve autotools config
* Fix for bug 654114 - Map "clutter" to "CALLY" toolkit script
* Enhanced Orca's traceit tool.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
fr French Bruno Brouard
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
=========
3.1.4 - 25-July-2011
General
* Fix for bug #654111 - Need to map 'gtk' to GAIL toolkit script
* Fix for bug #634460 - Could orca provide date/time information
within the debug files?
* Fix for bug #654210 - Orca sometimes fails to present the default
button in a dialog
* Fix for bug #654321 - Orca's debug utility reports the toolkit
version as 'unknown'
* Fix for bug #654426 - The speech generator's _generateAncestors()
method needs to handle page tabs which do not implement AtkText
* Fix for bug #654789 - Orca is not localizing key sequences when
presenting them to the user
* Fix for bug #654795 - Need to improve Orca's speech presentation
of WebKitGtk access keys
* Fix for bug #654796 - Orca is not respecting the 'only speak displayed
text' setting with rolename presentation in WebKitGtk content
Tests
* Updating gtk-demo regression and general tests
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Jorge González
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
ug Uyghur Sahran
==========
3.1.3 - 4-July-2011
General
* Fix for bug 653642 - Alt+F4 followed by Escape leaves the Orca window
closed - but Orca still running
* Fix for bug 653628 - List shortcuts mode: shortcut is spelled out as
"shift T A B" instead of saying "shift tab"
* Fix for bug 653634 - Orca welcome message is cut off
* Fix for bug 653624 - bash-ism causes error in orca startup script
* Fix for bug 653514 - The ONLY magnification work Orca should be doing
is handling caret and focus tracking
* Fix for bug 652500 - DBusException seen when Orca is running with
gnome-shell mag
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de German Christian Kirbach
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
tr Turkish Muhammet Kara
==========
3.1.2 - 13-June-2011
The long-overdue "spring cleaning" release
General
* Fix for bug 622764 - Remove the gconf dependency
* Fix for Bug 652408 - Remove last remnants of bonobo and friends
* Fix for bug 652415 - gksu grab can be disabled via gksu-properties;
Orca doesn't need this option in its GUI
* Fix for bug 652413 - Orca's enableAutostart setting and GUI widget
are redundant in GNOME 3 and should be removed
* Fix for bug 646288 - Orca needs to respond to the appropriate
gsettings keys
* Fix for bug 650136 - Fall back on combobox name to get the displayed
item
* Removal of outdated docs and other unused, cruftastic files
Speech
* Fix for bug 652246 - Orca starts speaking really slowly after the
Quit dialog appears
* Fix for bug 652043 - In Libreoffice, Orca doesn't present the title
bar
* Fix for bug 652237 - Remove gnome-speech support from the master/
3.1.x branch
* Fix for bug 647037 - Pronunciation rules not being applied until
user settings are reloaded
Magnification
* Fix for bug 629321 - gsmag.py should use GSettings rather than GConf
* Fix for Bug 652241 - Magnification settings should be controlled by
gnome-shell mag/Universal Access tools; not by Orca
* Fix for Bug 652407 - Orca's enableMagnifier setting should be based
on the value of screen-magnifier-enabled
* Fix for bug 652373 - Orca's magnification keybindings are no longer
needed in GNOME 3 and should therefore be removed
* Fix for bug 652238 - Remove gnome-mag support from the master/3.1.x
branch
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca@valencia Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
cs Czech Marek Černocký
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
==========
3.1.1 - 9-May-2011
General:
* Fix for bug #647522 - Orca should not speak page loading messages
if 'only speak displayed text' is enabled
* Fix for bug 638883 - Orca should present text which auto-inserted
into editable, non-terminal widgets
* Fix for bug #431030 - GtkStatusIcon objects don't have accessible
names
* Fix for bug #647982 - Orca sometimes presents application events
in GNOME 3; other times it fails to do so.
* Fix for bug #647547 - The braille monitor should be movable
* Fix for bug #647117 - orca autostarted in kde
* Fix for bug #646475 - Traceback seen with gnome-speech
* Fix for bug #646547 - Two typos in prefs string
* Fix for bug #640134 - Catch pyatspi2's RuntimeErrors
* Fix for the problem of punctuation settings not getting properly
loaded or unloaded when the application script changes.
* Fix for the problem of voice settings not getting properly loaded
or unloaded when the application script changes.
* Voice settings need to be ACSSs; not dicts.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Krasimir Chonov
ca Catalan Jordi Serratosa
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Simon Bienlein
eo Esperanto Kristjan Schmidt
es Spanish Jorge González and Daniel Mustieles
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
ja Japanese Jiro MATSUZAWA and Takayuki KUSANO
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Antonio Fernandes C. Neto
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan
ug Uyghur Abduxukur Abdurixit
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
==========
2.91.92 - 21-March-2011
General:
* Provide 'text' title type in the help content so that
the logo alt text doesn't wind up being displayed where
it should not be.
* Fix for bug #Bug 645241 - Attempting to manually run
certain app-settings files results in a traceback
* Fix for bug #645256 - Unhandled LookupError when
an application is quit
* Fix for bug #643304 - Specific apps settings are applied
globally
* Fix for bug #645278 - Orca is writing out application
prefences it should not
* Fix for bug #643969 - When switching from desktop to
laptop mode, new keybindings don't take effect
until restart
* Fix for bug #645364 - Need to check for "mapped" scripts
before object toolkit scripts when creating a new script
* Fix for bug #645362 - Orca is ignoring --disable main-window
* Fix for the problem with script loading of version 2
and 3 of Yelp.
Gecko/Yelp 2:
* Fix for bug #645117 - Traceback when using Orca with
Gecko-based Yelp
WebKitGtk/Yelp 3:
* Fix for bug #645286 - Orca should announce when WebKitGtk
content has started or finished loading
* Fix for bug #645290 - Orca does not present links in
Yelp 3 when those links are made up of multiple objects
* Fix for bug #645359 - Orca is not able to set the caret
position within a WebKitGtk list item when using
structural navigation
* Fix for bug #645366 - Orca needs to work around the initial
lack of caret in a newly-loaded WebKitGtk page
* Fix for bug #645465 Say All needs to be implemented for
WebKitGtk-based apps
* Fix for bug #645474 - Orca should provide the option of
performing a Say All when WebKitGtk content is loaded
Clutter/Cally:
* By default, any selection change on CALLY means a change
on locusOfFocus
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Jorge González
de German Mario Blättermann
it Italian Luca Ferretti
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
po Dutch Hannie Dumoleyn
Wouter Bolsterlee
ro Romanian Lucian Adrian Grijincu
ru Russian Anatol Kamynin
==========
2.91.91 - 07-March-2011
General:
* Fix for bug #643195 - Orca hangs after a traceback
* Fix for bug #637780 - Cannot permanently update settings for the gdm
user login session
* Fix for bug #643378 - Orca does not present the XFCE window switcher
* Fix for bug #643306 - Orca is not correctly failing back on the
default script for unknown toolkit
* Fix for bug #643067 - Have GS magnifyAccessible check that
magnification is enabled
Gecko:
* Fix for bug #634642 - Orca can be very slow to find a position in a
Gecko list
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
ug Uyghur Abduxukur Abdurixit
zh_CN Chinese (Simplified) Wei Li
==========
2.91.90 - 21-February-2011
General:
* Fix for bug #642212 - Delay setting autostart until console UI is
finished
* Fix for bug #642592 - Autostart orca if the screen-reader is enabled
* Fix for bug #642285 - Cannot launch Orca after performing a text
setup
* Fix for bug #641017 - Use json instead of yaml parser
OpenOffice/LibreOffice:
* Fix for bug #640372 - OOo seems far less likely to crash frequently
if we process its events synchronously
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
Jorge González
Daniel Mustieles
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
uk Ukrainian Daniel Korostil
==========
2.91.6 - 31-January-2011
General:
* Fix for bug #641033 - Sanity check needed before sending language
to speech dispatcher
* Fix for bug #640894 - always clear _gidleId when finished calling
_dequeue
* Fix for bug #640218 - Handle pyatspi LookupError exceptions better
* Fix for bug #640342 - Only defer to the toolkit script for an object
if the app script is associated with a different toolkit
* Fix for bug #639876 - sometimes I cannot hear the name of the window
when I press alt+tab
* Fix for bug #640194 - Post-event-manager-refactor sanity checks
needed
* Fix for bug #640135 - Generator Cache can get cleared in the midst
of getting the mnemonic, shortcut, and accelerator
* Fix for bug #640072 - Orca crashes receiving a message from Pidgin
* Fix for bug #640132 - Orca sometimes becomes non-responsive after
an app is quit
* Fix for bug #639992 - gdm-simple-greeter script did not have its
import modified in recent refactor
* Fix for bug 639974 - Orca crashes announcing progress bar updates
while pressing alt + tab
* Fix for bug #639668 - [Refactor] Eliminate the presentation manager
and focus tracking presenter; create an event manager and script
manager
* Fix for bug #639669 - [Refactor] Remove script mapping from
settings.py and clean up that code
* Fix for bug #639670 - [Refactor] Move default.py into the scripts
module
* Fix for bug #639671 - [Refactor] Remove event recount and
COMM_FAILURE handling
* Fix for bug #639673 - Orca should support the creation and use of
version-specific scripts for applications
* Work on bug #638970 - Loading a new profile takes longer than ideal
* Fix for bug #639418, not marked for translation the text-spelling
attribute name
* Fix for bug #638672 - Can't open the preferences dialog
WebKitGtk/Yelp 3:
* Fix for bug #640609 - Structural navigation should not kick in when
the user is performing a search of WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #640591 - The 'system' voice is incorrectly used after
structural navigation wraps in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug 640500 - Orca presents too much info for some links;
not enough info for others in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position or
selection for Headings in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640451 - Focused WebKitGtk links are not underlined
in braille
* Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position or
selection for Headings in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640381 - Orca is using the default voice for WebKitGtk
roles when it should use the system voice
* Fix for bug #640379 - Orca says 'read only' for paragraphs in
WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #640377 - Structural navigation sometimes fails to work
with WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #607854 - Yelp+WebKit not working well
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
el Greek Marios Zindilis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko
zh_HK Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun Chao
zh_TW Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun Chao
==========
2.91.5 - 10-January-2011
General:
* Finished bug #631123 - Orca documentation needs to be updated,
converted to Mallard, augmented, and moved to the Orca module
* Fix for bug #636841 - Orca does not speak user which gets selected
when the user first presses down cursor in gdm login screen
* Fix for bug #638623 - The application preferences dialogs are not
always correctly populated
* Fix for bug 638285 - debug.getAccessibleDetails() is called by the
generator and scripts regardless of the debug level
* Fix for bug #638318 - Different "None" strings for gender correct
translation
* Fix for bug #637667 - Profiles are not always loaded correctly
* Fix for bug 637865 - Orca stops speaking if Escape is pressed after
changing synthesizers
Gecko:
* Fix for bug #638063 - SayAll fails with certain pages in Firefox
* Fix for bug #638053 - Orca says "blank" in Gecko using the default
voice when it should use the system voice
* Fix for bug #638048 - Orca is breaking up utterances in Gecko when
it should not be
* Fix for bug #628837 - System Voice does not work correctly for Gecko
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sl Slovenian Andrej Žnidaršič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ug Uyghur Gheyret T.Kenji
vi Vietnamese Truong Anh Tuan and Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
zh_CN Chinese (Simplified) Aron Xu
==========
2.91.4 - 21-December-2010
"The Settings Manager and Profile Release: Now With More Ducks"
General:
* Fix for bug #637667 - Speech Settings in a profile are not always
loaded.
* Fix for bug #637653 - In a new setup, the Orca Preferences window
no longer gets focus.
* Fix for bug #637661 - We should be careful when using run() in Orca
dialogs because we can become unresponsive.
* Fix for bug #637670 - Speech is getting broken up into separate
utterances when it should not be.
* Fix for bug #637662 - The label serving as static text in the
Save Profile As dialog should be removed.
* Fix for bug #637665 - The 'Active Profile' label in the Preferences
dialog should have a shortcut.
* Fix for bug #637654 - Several changes need to be made to the
Save Profile As widgets.
* Fix for bug #637637 - The Save Profile As dialog should not be
setting accessible names for non-visible children.
* Fix for bug #570650 - Profiles and new settings manager.
* Fix for bug #637551 - Pressing help in the Orca Preferences dialog
should put you in the Preferences help.
* Work on bug #631123 - Orca documentation needs to be updated, converted
to Mallard, augmented, and moved to the Orca module.
* Fix for bug #637115 - Orca needs to have Miramar added to the list of
names for thunderbird scripts.
* Fix for bug #637422 - bookmarkCurrentWhereAmI() is not presenting roles
correctly.
* Fix for bug #636824 - Orca is at the mercy of speech-dispatcher's default
priority
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Jorge González
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
et Estonian Ivar Smolin
==========
2.91.3 - 29-November-2010
General:
* Work on Bug 633104 - I see three performance related problem
with Mozilla Thunderbird and Orca
* Fix for bug #630591 - Orca's _generateDisplayedText should return
an empty list when there is no text
* Fix for bug #634862 - Orca doesn't speak the heading or level when
using caret navigation in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #634469 - Remove unneeded accessible-value change hack
from Gecko script.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
ro Romanian Lucian Adrian Grijincu, Morie Daniel Alexandru
ug Uyghur Gheyret T.Kenji
==========
2.91.2 - 8-November-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #634248 - Orca should ignore object:state-changed:focused
events triggered by WebKitGtk caret navigation
* Fix for bug #626266 - Discontinue support for OpenTTS system
* Fix for bug #628842 - Orca speaks newly-focused panels in gnome-panel
using the default voice rather than the system voice
* Fix for bug #629586 - When Orca is in learn mode and the user switches
to another application, Orca stops presenting the locusOfFocus
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ast Asturian Xandru Armesto
ca@valencia Catalan Carles Ferrando
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
ja Japanese Takayuki KUSANO
==========
2.91.1 - 18-October-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #631544 - Orca crashes at GDM login screen if GDM's
.local/share/orca directory does not exist
* Fix for bug #628276 - Orca: Icons in Nautilus aren't using
localized role names
* Upgrade from LGPLv2 to LGPLv2.1.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
cs Czech Marek Černocký
de German Christian Kirbach
et Estonian Ivar Smolin
==========
2.91.0 - 03-October-2010
General:
* Fix for bug #630274 - Use system voice for the "starting Orca prefs
for x application" message
* Fix for bug #630644 - Modified gsmag.py to pass RectBounds arrays as
[left, top, right, bottom] (instead of [left, top, width, height])
when invoking GNOME Shell magnifier via DBus
* Fix for bug #631120 - Check for pyxdg
* Fix for bug #630142 - Two incorrectly named chat settings in
userCustomizableSettings
* Aditional fix for bug #609900 - Speech page speechdispatcher
defaults to zh
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #630584 - Orca should announce the newly-focused sheet
when the user navigates amongst sheets in Calc
WebKitGtk:
* Fix for bug #630328 - Orca provides no access to WebKitGtk content
whatsoever
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Damyan Ivanov
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da Danish Daniel K. Gartmann, Kenneth Nielsen
el Greek Simos Xenitellis
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ja Japanese Takayuki KUSANO
pl Polish Piotr Drąg, Tomasz Dominikowski
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Djavan Fagundes
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
==========
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 Černocký
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Michael Kotsarinis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez
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 Urbančič
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 Černocký
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez
gb British English Philip Withnall
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen
ja Japanese Jiro MATSUZAWA
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
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 Urbančič
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 Martínez
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 Černocký 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 Martínez
and Jorge González
fr French Claude Paroz
gl Galician Fran Diéguez and Antón Méixome
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Felipe Vieira Borges
ru Russian Юрий Козлов 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 Urbančič
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 Urbančič
==========
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 Urbančič
==========
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
==========
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 Martínez
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 – 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: → and ←.
* 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 Ukrainian 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: → and ←.
* 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 Ukrainian 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 Leszczyński
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 Šegan
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 – 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 – 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 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc 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 consistent 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 Urbanči
==========
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 Urbanči
==========
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 Urbanči
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 "°" and "º" 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 Ukrainian 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 noticeable
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 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc 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 structural 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 Beručka 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 will 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 Martínez
(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 Sandín <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 Sandín 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 Sandín 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 targeting 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 Beručka 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 Šegan
sr Serbian Danilo Šegan
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 Beručka (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 Martínez, 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 Šegan
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.
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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.
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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)
==========
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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