{"id":2695,"date":"2013-09-10T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2013-09-10T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:09:37","slug":"orca-screen-reader-improves-braille-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"Orca screen reader improves Braille functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/orca2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Orca logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2696\" \/>Orca, the screen reader for the GNOME desktop used on Linux machines, is now at the Beta 2 stage for its forthcoming 3.10 release. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Orca-3-10-Beta-2-Improves-Braille-Functions-381328.shtml\">According to Softpedia<\/a>, the 3.10 Beta 2 release fixes the broken text attribute presentation for Gecko, the new sliders are now present in GNOME Shell, partially-implemented value interfaces with range of 0 to 1 are now handled and a workaround has been added for Delete and Backspace text changed events.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Braille functions are now performed only when Braille is enabled and object:active-descendant-changed has been added to events that may be part of an &#8220;event flood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the Polish and Slovenian translations have been updated in Orca 3.10 Beta 2.<\/p>\n<p>See the fairly basic <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.acc.umu.se\/pub\/GNOME\/sources\/orca\/3.9\/orca-3.9.91.news\">change log<\/a> for all changes since the last release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orca, the screen reader for the GNOME desktop used on Linux machines, is now at the Beta 2 stage for its forthcoming 3.10 release. According to Softpedia, the 3.10 Beta 2 release fixes the broken text attribute presentation for Gecko, the new sliders are now present in GNOME Shell, partially-implemented value interfaces with range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}