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46.2 - 25 June 2024
Updates:
* Web: Eliminate chattiness from page-load events from embedded ads.
* Web: Fix bug causing Orca to not present certain ARIA dialog titles.
* Map xfce4-notifyd to notification-daemon script so that notifications
are presented.
* Table Navigator: Ensure we set the caret in Writer tables.
* LibreOffice: Fix presentation of editable combobox value changes.
* General: Fix bug that could cause Orca to not present the new caret
location.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
kab Kabyle Athmane MOKRAOUI
kab Kabyle Rachida SACI
ne Nepali Pawan Chitrakar
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leônidas Araújo
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
ru Russian Artur S0
=========
46.1 - 1 April 2024
Bug fixes:
* Fix issue causing flat review clicking to fail in some Gtk apps.
* Fix regression in SayAll upon page load.
* Fix presentation of new radio button groups.
* Avoid triggering crash in Pidgin.
* Fix issue in which Orca appeared to hang when where am I was used
immediately after page load of a large document.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Ask Hjorth Larsen
de German Jürgen Benvenuti
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fr French Alexandre Franke
kab Kabyle Athmane MOKRAOUI
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
lv Latvian Rūdolfs Mazurs
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Juliano de Souza Camargo
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
zh_CN Chinese (China) Boyuan Yang
=========
46.0 - 13 March 2024
Meson:
* Allow building without git executable.
Spiel:
* Fix language and dialect fallback.
* Catch all of Spiel's initialization errors.
* Respect both speech system override, and user preference.
* Avoid shutting Spiel down if still in use.
Key handling:
* Eliminate unnecessary keygrab refreshes in the web script.
* Fix new-keyhandling regression in bypass mode.
Thunderbird:
* Adjust to Thunderbird's new way of doing things when a message
is deleted.
General:
* Fix false positive identifying redundant name-change events.
* Fix regressions introduced by the accessible-text code rewrite.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas
en_GB British English Andi Chandler
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
kk Kazakh Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
=========
46.beta - 21 February 2024
Of Interest to Distros:
* Orca now uses meson instead of autotools.
* Orca no longer depends on the python3-pyatspi package; it accesses
AT-SPI2 directly through gobject introspection.
* Orca now has an optional dependency on the Spiel library. Please
see "Experimental Features" in README.md for details.
New and Updated Features:
* Spiel support has been added to Orca. Spiel is a new speech synthesis
API that works with eSpeak and Piper, with other synthesizers planned.
Web:
* Handled several issues causing Orca to jump unexpectedly to the top
of the page.
* Interrupt speech before presenting new line/location with caret nav.
This should improve behavior when arrowing rapidly within content.
* Fix bug causing "\ufffc" to be shown in braille instead of the link.
* Eliminate (nearly all of) our text sanity-checks and hacks that had
been in place for Firefox/Gecko bugs. Mozilla fixed those bugs as
part of their Cache The World work. This should improve performance.
General:
* Fix bug causing focus to be incorrectly changed when selection is
automatically updated in a related tree. This can happen with email
applications (e.g. incoming messages).
* Fix bug causing us to skip certain named elements in StackExchange
and StackOverflow.
* Fix several terminal-related flat review issues.
* Fix notifications in KDE not being fully presented by Notification
Presenter.
* Don't say "Window" when a MATE switcher window first appears.
* Echo sentence after whitespace typed rather than punctuation so the
presentation does not get cut off.
* Fix bug causing Orca to speak an object from the wrong window in
Mouse Review.
* Listen for and present document:page-changed events.
* Remove logic from the Event Manager that was obsoleted by the ability
to obsolete queued events. Make remaining logic more performant.
* Convert Orca from using pyatspi to using AT-SPI2 directly. Much code
clean-up was also done in the process.
* Miscellaneous code changes related to becoming more ready for Wayland.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Daniel Rusek
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fa Persian Danial Behzadi
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Juliano de Souza Camargo
ru Russian Artur S0
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
=========
46.alpha - 18 January 2024
New and Updated Features:
* The much-requested "sleep mode" has arrived! You can cause Orca to
act as if it were not running on an as-needed, per-app basis with
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q. This makes it much easier to use VMs in which
another screen reader is being used as well as self-voicing apps.
Orca should remember what apps are currently in sleep mode so it is
only necessary to enable it once per app in a given session. Note
that Orca does not currently store the setting permanently. This is
intentional, and is the same behavior as NVDA, but an option may be
created in the future to permanently store the setting.
* Orca now has commands to present information about the system without
having to navigate to the bar or widget that displays them:
* Present CPU and memory usage (unbound, requires psutil)
* Present battery status (unbound, requires psutil)
* Table navigation commands now work everywhere; not just in web
browsers and LibreOffice. In addition to the existing commands,
the following commands have been added:
* Orca+Shift+T: toggle table navigation (it's enabled by default)
* Orca+Alt+Shift+Left/Right/Up/Down: move to the final cell in
the specified direction.
In addition, Orca's dynamic header commands from LO should now work
everywhere, including Google Docs and other web-based editors. These
bindings have changed. The new bindings are:
* Orca+Shift+R: Set the cells to be treated as column headers to
this row.
* Orca+Shift+R double-click: Unset the dynamic column headers row.
* Orca+Shift+C: Set the cells to be treated as row headers to this
column.
* Orca+Shift+C double-click: Unset the dynamic row headers row.
* Orca's outdated tutorial message feature has been removed. In its
place is support for customized help messages which application and
toolkit developers can provide via ATK/AT-SPI2's new "help text"
API. At the present time, we are unaware of any implementations
and thus have not enabled these new tutorial messages by default.
Developers seeking to test their implementation can enable Orca's
presentation of tutorial messages in the Orca Preferences dialog.
* We now always use Atspi's device API for Orca commands. This was
initially in place only for Gtk 4 apps, which do not report keystrokes
to us for optional construction. Having addressed the majority of
issues with this new API, we believe it is ready to be used for all
applications and toolkits.
Web and Electron Apps Improvements:
* Include DLs in list navigation and DTs in list item navigation.
Also improve presentation of nested lists.
* Improve presentation of VSCode's selection containers.
* Web: Improve performance of navigation to end of document
LibreOffice Bug Fix:
* Ensure the entire word count dialog is presented when the dialog
is shown.
General Improvements and Fixes:
* Improve performance by identifying and quickly dismissing obsolete
accessible events.
* Improve performance by using AT-SPI2's cache for everything.
* Fix bug causing utterances to be split up unexpectedly
* Announce the has popup state even in non-web contexts.
* Lots of code clean-up and more work to eliminate our dependency
on pyatspi.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
cs Czech Daniel Rusek
de German Jürgen Benvenuti
de German Philipp Kiemle
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
eo Esperanto Kristjan SCHMIDT
es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
eu Basque Asier Sarasua Garmendia
fa Persian Danial Behzadi
fa Persian Sina Aghighi
fi Finnish Jiri Grönroos
fr French Guillaume Bernard
gl Galician Fran Dieguez
he Hebrew Yaron Shahrabani
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
ka Georgian Ekaterine Papava
lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
pl Polish Piotr Drąg
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Alex Jr
pt Portuguese Hugo Carvalho
ro Romanian Daniel Șerbănescu
ro Romanian Florentina Mușat
ru Russian Artur S0
ru Russian Artur So
ru Russian Sergej A
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Anders Jonsson
tr Turkish Sabri Ünal
uk Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan
zh_CN Chinese (China) Luming Zh
=========
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.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- Loading branch information
