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Orca 3.24 Screen Reader and Magnifier Has Entered Development: Public Preview is Available for Download.

Orca, the popular screen reader, and magnifier for Linux, has entered development in anticipation of the public launch of version 3.24 on March 23rd.
Version 3.23.4 is available now for testing, if you would like to get a head start on the new release. You can download it here.
Some of the improvements include:

    Better support for webpages
    Improved ARIA support
    Improved support for the LibreOffice office suite
    Improvements in handling the SeaMonkey mail client

Here is the complete change log.

    Optionally announce when entering and leaving blockquotes, lists, tables, panels, forms, and landmarks
    Improve handling of pages where the content is rapidly and repeatedly destroyed and replaced
    Improve workarounds for several Gecko editable-text bugs
    Ensure we always announce ARIA landmark type before setting the caret
    Improve presentation of ARIA regions
    Add custom support for ARIA switch role
    Present messages resulting from use of aria-invalid
    Check for and filter out defunct objects when building elements list
    Eliminate double-speaking of line after document load
    Suppress presentation of irrelevant loading messages resulting from busy state-change events in SeaMonkey’s mail client
    Eliminate double-speaking of inferred labels in SayAll
    Fix several instances where new document name was not being presented
    Handle (un)ordered lists in which item text falls outside the item element
    Descend images if they are imagemaps so that we don’t fail to present their content

LibreOffice:

    Fix crash presenting certain Writer tables
    Handle LO’s recently-corrected exposure of text attributes for spellcheck
    Handle change in LO’s accessibility tree for dialogs
    Handle more cases of LO objects becoming defunct
    Don’t assume we can always get a string value for Calc input line
    Yet another workaround for yet another missing state-changed event
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General:

    Make spoken presentation of accessible description optional
    Work around missing focus-change events when focus changes due to a mouse click
    Use Unicode in translatable strings
    Fix several issues in which we incorrectly update our location based on bogus or redundant accessibility events
    Reduce chattiness associated with presentation of typeahead search
    Include infobar content when presenting status bar and default button
    Reduce chattiness associated with icons which incorrectly implement accessible text
    Improve presentation of editable comboboxes
    Fix bug in which Orca is silent on launch due to inability to access default screen
    Don’t generate substring content unnecessarily (performance)
    Don’t treat an empty table as layout only if the user gives it focus
    Fix bug speaking punctuation when punctuation style is set to NONE
    Stop converting horizontal ellipses to “…” in braille

New and updated translations:

    Czech
    German
    Spanish
    French
    Galician
    Hungarian
    Dutch
    Polish
    Brazilian Portuguese
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