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Orca v2.19.6 has been released:

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

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



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* What's changed for Orca v2.19.6?
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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

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.19.6 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.6.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.6.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team