GNOME's Orca Screen Reader Receives Major Improvements Ahead of GNOME 3.16 | Linux Today

GNOME’s Orca Screen Reader Receives Major Improvements Ahead of GNOME 3.16

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Marius Nestor
Mar 19, 2015

Orca 3.16 Release Candidate (the exact version number is 3.15.92) revamps the heuristic that is currently used to identify layout tables, updates the internal landmark role list in order to synchronize it with the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) specifications, and table details are no longer when outputted if the verbosity level is set to brief.

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Marius Nestor

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