14 DAY TRIAL // Orca, a free, open-source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable Braille, is now at version 3.12.1.
According to the developers, Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI), which is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for Linux and Solaris.
Orca has been through a massive overhaul for the GNOME 3.12 launch, and now the first updates for the takes stable version of GNOME have started to land. For example, saved page-loading state is being cleared when the Gecko script is deactivated, support has been added for ROLE_PAGE, now that Evince uses it, the name of a button is now preferred even if it implements AtkText, and a false positive identifying selected text with caret-moved events has been corrected.
Also, the presentation of caret-moved events for Firefox auto-complete has been fixed, an explicit check for KP_0 as the Orca modifier has been added, some chattiness presenting combo boxes has been removed, and the root label is now longer treated as an unrelated label.
A complete backlog of updates and bug fixes can be found in the GNOME repository. Download Orca 3.12.1 right now from Softpedia.