Announcing Orca v3.6.2 and v3.7.0.95

Joanmarie Diggs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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What is Orca?
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader
that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech and refreshable braille.

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

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Why two versions?
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Having two parallel versions of Orca was easier than trying to have a
single version of Orca which would work nicely in both Python 2 and
Python 3. This is, however, the last of the dual-version Orcas. Going
forward Orca will require Python 3.3.

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What's Changed in 3.6.2/3.7.0.95?
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General

  * Fix for bug 674526 - Orca sometimes fails to present download
    "dialog" widgets

  * Fix for bug 688057 - A page that hangs orca

  * Fix for Orca continuing to speak when speech is disabled via
    the preferences dialog

  * Improve performance of building flat review context

  * Fix for bug 687527 - Handle applications returning 0 in
    minimalIncrement for Value

  * Use subprocess.Popen() instead of the deprecated os.popen()

  * Use for() instead of map() in cleanup()

  * Fix for bug 686189 - Use importlib.import_module() instead of
    __import__() and imp.reload() instead of reload()

  * Fix to braille email address auto completions in Thunderbird

  * Pkill fails to kill Orca in Python 3 (3.7.0.95 only)

  * Fix for bug 687526 - Orca excepts trying to output exceptions
    (3.7.0.95 only)

Where can I get it?
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http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.6/orca-3.6.2.tar.xz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.7/orca-3.7.0.95.tar.xz

Enjoy!
-- The Orca Team
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