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ACAT Release 0.99.1

This is a binary-only release. Source code for this version will be released soon. Please report any issues/problems and also provide feedback before the official release.

New in this release

Refer to the ACAT User Guide for details on the new features.

1. Spanish Language pack added. ACAT is now available in English, French and Spanish.
2. Multi-modal gestures. Commands (ACAT shortcuts) can be mapped to gestures to allow richer interactions. For example, the eyebrow-raise gesture in ACAT Vision can be mapped to "undo the last editing change", or to "restart the scanning sequence". Mapping is done through the "Actuators" option in the ACAT Config utility.
3. A new Phrases application that displays a list of configurable phrases to convert to speech. The app can be launched from the ACAT Dashboard.
4. Select preferred Text-to-speech voice by voice name or by gender. Voice selection can be done through the "Text-to-speech" option in the ACAT Config utility
5. A new color scheme for scanners . Color scheme can be selected from the ACAT Config utility.
6. A new parameter to configure the number of iterations for typing accented letters in non-English languages. Parameter can be controlled through the "Scan" settings in the ACAT settings menu.

Bug Fixes

1. Selecting the @ symbol in the Punctuation scanner would cause ACAT to crash
2. Page-up/Page-down buttons were disabled in the File Browser and Switch Windows scanner even if the window contained more than a pageful of entries
3. On Windows 10, the "Switch Windows" option would display hidden or cloaked windows such as Photos, Calculator, Movies & TV even though they were hidden.
4. "Show Desktop" in Switch Windows" would not work on Windows 10
5. On some Windows 10 machines, ACAT Vision would crash in acat_gestures_dll.dll
6. On Windows 10, right clicking on an icon in the Windows taskbar would cause ACAT to become unresponsive