[orca-list] Orca stops reading content of existing windows (but can read windows opened after the failure)

[Jordan Verner <jordan caturria ca>]

Hi list,

So yesterday I reinstalled Arch so I could take the new Gnome 
accessibility improvements for a spin.

I'm however facing a pretty strange problem: every so often (maybe once 
an hour), Orca just stops being able to read the contents of any 
existing window. This includes the DE itself. Orca can seemingly access 
any "new" window (that is, a program that I launch after the failure 
begins), but anything opened prior to the failure becomes entirely 
unreadable.

Restarting Orca doesn't solve this; it announces "Screen reader off" and 
"Screen reader on", but "old" windows continue to be unavailable while 
"new" ones are fine.

Has anyone seen this? Is there a service I can restart that will get me 
out of this? I can restart GDM itself, but this is functionally 
equivalent to a reboot in that all applications running under the 
session are closed.


Thanks,


Jordan.