Hey lookie I'm a Linux Tech Priest now. So Orca is a good bit sluggish on the web sometimes, when it didn't used to be. So I posted about it on the Orca list, and the ATSPI person said there's an update. So being the utter fool I am, I git cloned, configured, built it, and installed it and rebooted. No ATSPI, so Orca couldn't read anything. So again, being the fool I am, I went into the console with no screen reader, no BRLTTY cause I don't even know, and through piping stuff to espeak-ng, I found the folder I installed from, tried sudo make uninstall which I'm not sure that even works with Meson build systems, but decided to just do sudo dnf reinstall at-spi2-core at-spi2-atk, hit y, typed in my password just in case, hit y again just in case, waited a good 30 seconds, rebooted. And it works now! Ugh I'll just wait for the fix to officially land.

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From the Orca mailing list:

Hey all.

Given that I seem to have fixed all the super serious bugs that you
found in the global-structural-navigation branch, I have just merged
that change into the main branch. Therefore, please switch back to that
branch and keep testing because huge change was huge.

As always, I really appreciate all your help! Orca users are the best
users ever!!

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