Orca 2.20.0 Release Notes

NEW FEATURES:

Much improved support for Firefox 3 and Thunderbird 3
Much improved support for OpenOffice
Much improved support for the Java platform
Much improved support for GAIM/Pidgin
Support for application-specific and application-unique settings
Support for custom pronunciations of words
Support for "Say All" by sentences
Support for customizable text attributes to be presented via speech and braille
Improved support for "Where am I", including ability to present default button in a dialog
Support for bookmarked objects
Support for tooltips
Support for progress bars
Support for "balloon type" messages from notification area
Support for the gnome-mud application (thanks Javier!)
New Tango icons (thanks Stephen Brandt!)
Work on regression testing
Inclusion of experimental support for SpeechDispatcher

Respect key echo settings, but force key echo to "star" when we can detect we're in a password field
More dynamic presentation of objects and their states in flat review
Better tracking of where a "Say All" operation was interrupted by the user
Better handling of broken communication between Orca and gnome-mag
Elimination of problem where using BrlTTY can consume all of the CPU
Work on memory leaks
Prevent silence when encountering image-only table cells
Much work on i18n/l10n with our translators (thanks translators!)

See the open bugs in the Orca bug database. We not only track Orca bugs in the Orca bug database, we also track bugs in other components that affect Orca's ability to provide good access to them.
NOTE: Compiz is not accessibility friendly at this point in time. We do not recommend its use right now, and recommend you stick with Metacity until the Compiz kinks are worked out. If you're using Compiz and want to switch to Metacity, you can run the following command: metacity --replace.