Please consider Orca 3.4.1 update.

It concerns me a bit that there are no LP bugs at all for any of the fixed bugs. This will make it hard to verify them, as there are no bug reporters to send the call for testing to.

So this will need to be regression tested quite thorougly by you or other a11y community persons.

Hello Luke, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-orca into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I found no problems with the updates until now.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Orca version 3.4.1 is working very well for me. My only issue is that speech is sometimes lost when using Skype. I'm not sure if this is an Orca bug, or if the issue is being caused by the Voxin speech engine. I will test with Espeak and report back.

Thanks,
Jeremy

Orca 3.4.1, from Precise Proposed, working very well, but Espeak voice pitch not restored to normal level when returning from upper to lower case. Possible Espeak bug?

I used Espeak with Skype all day, and am happy to report no crashes! I re-installed the Voxin engine, and the crashes I was having with that engine are fixed as well.

Thanks,
Jeremy

I installed the Orca 3.4.1 update, along with the at-spi2 packages, and all is working extremely well. The problem with Pidgin is also fixed. I am having a similar problem to Dave Hunt though, where the pitch is not restored when returning to normal case. I am running Voxin though, so would like to confirm that it's not an espeak only bug. I can live with that though, so don't hesitate to put orca 3.4.1 and supporting at-spi2 packages in precise-updates, so everyone can benefit.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-orca - 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.1

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gnome-orca (3.4.1-0ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #988685)
    - GNOME 3
      + Present the name change of the suspend/power off menu item
      + Prevent nameless panels from delaying presentation of Top Bar button
      + Prevent focused objects in gnome-shell dialogs from preempting
        presentation of the dialog itself
      + Fix for Empathy active descendant presentation getting incorrectly
        interrupted
      + Minor adjustments to get Orca working with Empathy 3.4
      + Fix for bug 672461 - Orca now presents the full file list when the
        file chooser is opened
    - Unity
      + Fix for bug 673397 - Using flat review while in Unity Greeter makes
        Orca stop presenting screen contents
      + Fix for bug 673157 - Unhandled exception when in Unity Greeter
      + Fix for bug 673648 - Orca does not present Unity 2d indicators
        correctly in braille
    - Qt
      + Fix for Orca incorrectly skipping certain menu item events in KMail
      + Fix for bug 673142 - Unhandled exceptions (GError: No such object
        path) when using Skype
    - WebKitGtk
      + Fix for bug 673540 - List and list item structural navigation
        sometimes fails
      + Prevent Orca from double-presenting focused links with structural
        navigation in lists
      + Fix for bug 672464 - Orca double presents headings which are links
      + Fix braille rolename presentation
      + Fix for bug 673757 - Pages with alt attribute present, but not
        actually set, results in traceback
      + Fix a UnicodeWarning
    - Gecko
      + Fix for bug 673715 - Orca double-echoes keys pressed in Thunderbird
        address fields
      + Fix for bug 673567 - List in Firefox preferences dialog not presented
    - LibreOffice
      + Fix for bug 672787 - Unhandled exceptions from dead accessibles in
        Calc
      + Fix for bug 673530 - Orca multi-presents the focused cell's contents
        when arrowing in Calc
      + Fix for bug 672953 - Orca is presenting extra "input line frame"
        announcements in LibreOffice Calc
    - Orca and AT-SPI
      + Handle the new AT-SPI2 timeout errors
      + Add additional debugging info to help track down hard-to-reproduce
        issues
      + Use os.makedirs instead of os.mkdir if the XDG data home directory
        doesn't exist
      + Disable braille monitor if the import fails
      + Ensure 'orca -t' works even without a Desktop
      + Fix for bug 673336 - Problems (re)binding commands with Caps_Lock
    - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
      + ca Catalan Jordi Serratosa
      + ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
      + de German Christian Kirbach
      + hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
      + lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
  * Dropped patches, applied upstream:
    - 04_Ensure-orca-t-works-even-without-a-Desktop.patch
    - 05_settings_manager-Create-the-XDG-data-home-directory-.patch
  * debian/watch: Point...