BSD Ports

x11/gnome/orca 50.3 OpenBSD

assistive screen reader

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]>
Categories
lang/python, x11/gnome

Description

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and/or braille.

Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI). Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Gecko, and WebKitGtk.

Optional dependencies: * brltty: support for braille * gst-plugins-good: support for sound * liblouis: support for contracted braille * libwnck3: support for mouse * speech-dispatcher: support for speech

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 51.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDx11/gnome/orca50.3 behind since 2026-09-18no data-Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]>-
FreeBSDaccessibility/orca by name47.5_1 behind since 2026-09-11none known-[email protected]-
DragonFlyaccessibility/orca by name43.1_5 behind since 2026-09-08none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDaccessibility/orca by name51.0 newestno data-[email protected]2026-09-18
HardenedBSDaccessibility/orca by name47.5_1 behind since 2026-09-11no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDaccessibility/orca by name47.5_1 behind since 2026-09-11no data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add orca

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome/orca && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 11
Run dependencies 12
Required by 1