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Orca
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Screen reader Orca is hard for blind users to use with consolesUnreviewed
20162026- Orca screen reader failed to work when the commenter tried it2025-06-19
- Screen reader Orca is hard to use for blind users with consoles2022-05-11
- Orca's text-to-speech service refuses to respond, so the developer can't test screen reader output2022-03-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Orca screen reader failed to work when the commenter tried it2025-06-19
- Screen reader Orca is hard to use for blind users with consoles2022-05-11
- Orca's text-to-speech service refuses to respond, so the developer can't test screen reader output2022-03-21
- Screen reader is hard to use with apps not built for accessibility2020-04-20
- Screen reader speech randomly dies after rebooting a Linux install in a VM2018-07-24
- Hard to get screen reader working with speech, braille and login screen2017-03-11
- Orca is far behind other screen readers; audio latency and synth support are poor for blind users2016-10-29