* 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* Orca's outdated tutorial message feature has been removed.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
