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

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