Ubuntu
gnome-orca package

  1. Bug #1165609
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1165609

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Volodya (volodya) wrote : Re: There is no apparent way to stop Orca.

Behaviour still exists. Ubuntu 13.10 all updates installed.

To add to what Vladimir Rutsky has said, you may need to first turn the reader on, before turning it off. So it is already reading, but you first press Alt+Super+S to start it (again?) and then again to turn it finally off.