[SUE-list] Newsletter November 2009

[Nicole A. <an...@it...>]

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* SUE Newsletter November 2009 *
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SUE is short for Screenreader & Usability Extensions, an effort to make
screen reading on Linux more usable. SUE is based on the former Linux
Screen Reader (LSR), an excellent platform for all kinds of assistive
applications. SUE itself is the first of those assistive applications,
namely a screen reader for graphical user interfaces on the GNOME
desktop.

SUE is available either from SVN trunk or in version 0.5.0 from our
download section at Sourceforge.net. Documentation including
installation instructions may also be found at
http://sue.sourceforge.net.

* News:
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* General
. You are now notified when copying (Ctrl+C) or cutting (Ctrl+X)
anything.
. You may ask for the version of SUE on the console using the following
commands:
sue -v
sue --version

* Speech
. SUE now has a master controller for speech settings like volume, rate
and pitch for all voices.
. Background information are now output with speech.

* Desktop / Nautilus
You are now receiving information upon selecting or unselecting objects
on the desktop or in the nautilus file browser.


* Bugfixes:
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Bug: When setting focus on the desktop, SUE often output information on
an unfocused element. This is fixed now.

Bug 2878806: SUE did not output the labels of spin boxes.

Evolution bugs:
. In the setup assistant the timezone table cell and text field contents
were read twice.
. Because of an error in a function call SUE did not output item roles.
. The description of tab pages in the evolution settings dialogs were
not always read correctly. This problem occured because of some stubborn
events.
. SUE did not read some of the warning dialogs because of their
customized build.
. When opening the 'Save All Attachments' dialog, the title was read
twice.
. The combo boxes in evolution are all custom build and don't always
work like the standard boxes. This made for some interesting problems
that we had to solve. The combo boxes work now.
. Navigating into the mail header from the mail body was not always
possible.
All these Evolution bugs are now fixed.

Bug: The shortcuts to increase or decrease the speech rate were broken
and needed to be fixed.

Bug: The output for selected text was incorrect in some cases. This is
now fixed.
 
Bug: In the Hungarian version of SUE did not output the time when (Alt
+Shift+F12) was pressed. This was due to a wrong translation of the
frame name which is now fixed.

Bug: SUE was unable to handle insertions by pressing two keys at the
same time. This is now fixed.

Bug: SUE crashed when a key was pressed during the startup process. This
problem was solved.

Bug: Terminal crashed upon start when SUE was running in Ubuntu 9.10.
This is now fixed.

Bug: GKeybindingScript was broken and needed to be fixed.

Bug: In OpenOffice.org Calc SUE did not output 'formula' when the user
navigated on a table cell with a formula and the "Function List" is
activated. This problem was solved.


* Current work:
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. Right now we are doing extensive tests on SUE to fix as many problems
as possible.
. The documentation updates continue both in the German and the English
wiki.

If you are interested in testing SUE but experience problems at any
point, please don't hesitate to send a message to this mailing list.
If you find a bug, you may add it to our bug tracker on SourceForge.net
or send an e-mail with your bug description to
sue...@it.... A few notes on how to submit a bug in
either of those ways and which information to include are available on
both our project wiki at http://www.sue-projekt.de (in German) and our
documentation page at SourceForge.net (in English). To request a
feature, you may use the same means of communication.

Thanks a lot for your tests, comments, and feedback!

The SUE team