[SUE-list] Newsletter December 2009

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

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* SUE Newsletter December 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 1.0.0 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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* New Release - Version 1.0.0
SUE version 1.0.0 has been released. It has, again, become more stable,
many new features have been implemented and numerous bugs have been
fixed.

In order to install SUE on Ubuntu 9.04 there is an installation script
provided in our Download section at
http://sourcefor.ge.net/projects/sue/files/sue/InstallScripts/install_9.04.sh/download.
In that section you may also find installation scripts for eSpeak
including our German voices as well as for mbrola.
http://sourcefor.ge.net/projects/sue/files/sue/InstallScripts/install_mbrola.sh/download
http://sourcefor.ge.net/projects/sue/files/sue/InstallScripts/install_espeak_voices.sh/download

In addition, we are also offering "SUEbuntu", a Live-CD including Ubuntu
9.04 with an integrated version of SUE in the same location.

* General
. When navigating in text lines or multi-line text areas, speech output
for "line begin" and "line end" is now provided.
. We have forced the application name to be "SUE" so AT-SPI gets the
correct application name. 
. SUE settings are now saved upon system shutdown.
. To ensure quality, unit tests have been added to SUE.

* Braille Monitor
. Selections are now shown on the Braille monitor.

* Dokumentation / WIKI
. We have updated the installation instructions for SUE both on the
German and the English wiki.
. Some wiki pages have been translated to Hungarian. 

* Internationalization
. SUE is now available in romanian, too! Bun venit, utilizatorilor
români!

* Bugfixes:
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Bug: In OpenOffice.org SUE read the wrong line when paragraphs have been
switched using word jump (Ctrl+Right Arrow).

Bug: SUE did not output insertions in GNOME terminal.

Bug: The extra "delete" output for sliders has been removed. SUE will
now only output "delete" if no "insert" follows.

Evolution bugs:
. Redundant line begins / multiple announcements of "line begin" at the
very first position in e-mail writing
. SUE used to get wrong character and item offsets in multi-line text
areas.
. SUE "forgot" to announce the empty e-mail text area when tabbing there
for the first time.
. Inbetween inserting text into a text field and tabbing to the next
one, SUE skipped the "inserted" message (How dare she!? *smile*)
. SUE did not output the first selection move after a line begin or a
line end since Evolution still had the old caret position.
. SUE did not announce a new line in the e-mail text area.
All these Evolution bugs are now fixed. *smile*

Bug: Typing into Nautilus file manager activates a little filter dialog
where the filter is applied upon pressing Enter. SUE used to crash if
filtering resulted in no matching file. We told her not to do so
anymore.

Bug: If the first character in an inserted text is a space, SUE did only
output "inserted". This is now fixed and SUE correctly outputs "inserted
space".

Bug: SUE did not read "space" or "tab" when moving by caret. Now she
does.

Bug: A text selection over multiple lines lead to SUE outputting the
wrong selected text. This now works as expected.

Bug: When opening windows in the background, SUE did not use the
background voice to speak them. This is now fixed, too.


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.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all SUE users! Thank you for
your support and feedback!

The SUE team