50.0 - 14 March 2026

Bug fixes and other improvements:

* Refactor mouse review to use the new AtspiDevice API when available.

* Fix multiple issues related to settings and the preferences window.

* Fix presentation when using Google Docs' native navigation.

* Fix caret navigation sticking on named links with broken hypertext
  offsets.

* Don't toggle browse/focus modes when using the table navigator.

* Fix presentation of characters when automatic language switching is
  enabled.

* Attempt to use the action interface when synthesizing a right click.

* Fix flat review braille panning viewport jump.

* Fix presentation of autoinsertions of one character.

* Include the new value when changing rate, pitch, or volume on the fly.

* Add per-layout Orca modifier key settings so preferred modifiers are
  remembered when switching layouts.

* Add another workaround for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-128558
  so that Mumble status cells are presented.

* Fix on-screen speech display not initially focused on MATE.

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

  ca              Catalan                   Victor Dargallo
  da              Danish                    Alan Mortensen
  en_GB           British English           Bruce Cowan
  oc              Occitan                   Quentin PAGÈS
  pl              Polish                    Victoria
  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Juliano de Souza Camargo
  ug              Uighur                    Abduqadir Abliz

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* There is new option to read chat room messages from the active room
* Fix several issues related to preferring the TableCell interface
 * Attempt to be smarter about the default contraction table, preferring
 * Correctly update caret position when Page Up/Down used in editable text
 * Ensure the expanded state of tree rows is announced
 * Do not suppress presentation of locking keys in password fields
 * Work around unfortunate event order when switching page tabs in Gecko
  * Remove the old "inaccessible" metacity/marco hack
  * Create Browse and Focus modes to make access to web content and web
  * Significant work and progress on profile-based, on-the-fly language
  * Fix for bug 693159 - Orca doesn't echo words in gnome-terminal
    preferences it should not
  * Additional fix for bug #609900 - Speech page speechdispatcher
  * Fix for bgo#619949 - Attributes in oowriter are not being presented
  it can not be launched
  NOTE TO USERS: the standard toolkit method for bringing up a tooltip