About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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!!
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 issu
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* Make cell ancestor presentation optional
In issue #253, Orca's failure to present cell ancestor information
when tabbing among interactive descendants of a cell was reported
as a bug.
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* Fix several issues relating to presentation of navigation among
focusable descendants within ARIA grids and tables
* Improve support for description lists
* Fix SayAll presentation of tim
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* Fix presentation of the FluentUI react dialog (and any other
dialog which has an ARIA document-role descendant
WebKitGtk:
* Fail gracefully when structural navigation commands are used in
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 articl
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web (Chromium + Gecko):
* Fix several performance issues impacting Google Docs.
* Fix bug in which Orca failed to speak when clicking on a line.
WebKitGtk:
* Handle WebKitGtk's change in toolk
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
WebKitGtk:
* Handle WebKitGtk's change in toolkit name casing so that
older versions of Orca continue to work with newer versions
of WebKitGtk.
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ChangeLog
=
https://downlo
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
de GermanPhilipp Kiemle
it Italian Milo Casagrande
kk Kazakh
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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:
*
translation
M help/pt_BR/pt_BR.po
2022-02-04 16:42:46 +0100 Joanmarie Diggs
Web: More aggressively update focus for focused entries and spinners
M src/orca/scripts/web/script.py
2022-01-31 16:36:27 +0100 Joanmarie Diggs
Fix regression in soffice's presentati
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* Fix bug causing widgets descending from off-screen label elements
to be skipped over
General:
* Fix bug causing accessing preferences to fail for Esperanto
* Add more event-flood detecti
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix bug causing accessing preferences to fail for Esperanto
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ChangeLog
=
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/40/orca-40.2.changes (300)
Download
https:
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix compatibility issues with Python 3.10
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
fr FrenchCharles Monzat
nl Dutch
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix compatibility with Python 3.10
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da DanishAlan Mortensen
de German
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 mi
News
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
News
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Černocký
da DanishAsk Hjorth Larsen
it Italian Milo Casagrande
sv Swedish Anders Jons
News
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
News
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
*
News
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
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ChangeLog
=
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.38/orca-3.38.2.changes (407)
Download
ht
News
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!!!):
ptPortuguese Juliano de S
News
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 tra
News
General:
* Add some sanity checks to prevent crashing due to GStreamer failure
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ChangeLog
=
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.36/orca-3.36.6.changes (407)
Download
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.36/orca-3.36.6.tar.xz (3.30M)
sha256sum
News
Web + Thunderbird:
* Fix regression breaking access to content (incomplete cherry-pick)
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ChangeLog
=
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.36/orca-3.36.5.changes (500)
Download
https://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.36/orca-3.36.5.tar.xz (3.41M)
News
Web:
* 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
*
News
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 na
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 i
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix crash related to non-standard tables
* Fix error using braille with JavaAtkWrapper
* Work around Qt not exposing STATE_CHECKABLE and/or using
ROLE_CHECK_MENU_ITEM on checkable
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Chromium:
* Fix chattiness issue resulting from failing to consider the prior
object when generating labelOrName
* Improve responsiveness of text selection in large objects
* Prevent double-
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 Orc
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 extraneo
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
nlDutch Nathan Follens
roRomanian Daniel Șerbănescu
ukUkrainian
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Chromium:
* Present alerts upon window activation
* Improve presentation of list items with markers, including handling
a change in the accessibility tree
Web:
* Prevent repetition of lines
po/pt_BR.po
2019-12-04 20:22:19 + Anders Jonsson
Update Swedish translation
M po/sv.po
2019-12-02 09:16:16 -0500 Joanmarie Diggs
Sanity check source and sink before adding them to the pipeline
M src/orca/sound.py
2019-11-26 18:52:32 +0100 Jordi Mas
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* 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 b
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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, y
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 s
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 tex
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
* F
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
csCzech Marek Cernocky
deGermanTim Sabsch
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ChangeLog
=
https://
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 tran
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 conten
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Braille:
* Ensure we don't pan beyond the length of the line being displayed
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
frFrenchCharles Monzat
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About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix presentation of nameless menu items in certain gnome-shell
extesions
* Improve presentation of Pluma spell-check dialog
* Fix bug in sentence echo
* Fix issue with profile n
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 hav
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 add
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 bogu
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 incorrectl
News
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
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 t
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 Firefo
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 w
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
* Ensur
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 ar
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 Gt
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
destroy
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Terminal:
* Reduce some chattiness using vim
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
en_GB British English David King
hrCroatian gogo
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 incom
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 o
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Web:
* Fix issue updating caret position during structural navigation
General:
* Don't try to catch SIGSEGV; use faulthandler to dump output from
crash. This is needed to behave (slightly) be
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
* A
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
Performance:
* Take interfaces into account when looking for non-descendable
descendants
* Cache results of shouldInferLabelFor()
* Cache results when filtering contents for presentation
*
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
ChangeLog
=
2016-04-23 17:51:53 -0400 Joanmarie Diggs
Only update locusOfFocus to context replicant if locusOfFocus is a
zombie
M src/orca/scripts/web/script.py
Download
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 aroun
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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)
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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:
* Impro
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 col
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 l
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Updated documentation
* Add handling for Evo's "autocomplete" popups
* Work around missing object:state-changed:focused events from Gecko
and Gtk+
* Fix several issues related t
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix flatreview traceback
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
daDanish Kenneth Nielsen
frFrench
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 cau
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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-le
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 s
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 l
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
* Cr
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 failu
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 fallback
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Check for the new(ish) accessible roles for documents in structural
navigation
* Fix several issues related to dead accessibles in Gecko content
and Writer content
* Add s
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
huHungarian Gabor Kelemen
idIndonesian Andika Triwidada
itItalia
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 structura
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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 n
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Implement ability to "rewind" and "fast forward" during SayAll
* Add support for presentation of mathematical alphanumeric symbols and
operators
* Fix for bug 742293 - Applica
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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:
* Ha
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
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()
About orca
==
Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
News
General:
* Fix for bug 736237 - Enable autostart on additional desktop
environments
* Filter out non-standard modifiers when capturing keys for bindings
* Map 'marco' to 'metacity' in th
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