Orca Screen Reader Updated for GNOME 3.20.2 with Performance Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Orca open-source screen reader and magnifier software used by default in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems has been updated today, May 16, 2016, to version 3.20.2.

As usual, we’ve managed to fetch the internal changelog to tell you what’s new in this release, which is being distributed as part of the recently announced GNOME 3.20.2 desktop environment.

As such, Orca 3.20.2 arrives today with various performance improvements, such as support for cache results for the shouldInferLabelFor() function, as well as the ability to verify setting before attempting to generate spoken indentation information.

Moreover, the findObjectInContents() function now receives smarts for embedded children, the application can cache results during filtering contents for the presentation, and it takes in… (read more)

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