Orca should have a command to toggle speech verbosity levels on the fly. The most immediate use case is toggling the presentation of "clickables" on and off.

"Clickable" elements are those which have an onClick handler. Sadly, these elements tend to be text spans that are not focusable, not discoverable, and thus inaccessible. Orca now announces their presence and provides means to navigate to them and activate them. As a result, these formerly inaccessible elements are now accessible. And there was much rejoicing. Until....

From user testing, I've learned that certain sites, such as Voice of America's "learn english" content, makes pretty much EVERY word clickable so that learners can click on a word and have that word's definition pop up. This makes the content unreadable at Orca's "verbose" level of speech verbosity. ("This clickable makes clickable the content clickable unreadable clickable at Orca clickable 's level clickable of speech clickable verbosity clickable ."). :(

Such sites indicate that it is no longer the case that there is a single verbosity level that should JustWork(tm) for the user. It needs to be toggle-able. I've made this change and committed it to master. [1] Due to GNOME being in string freeze, I cannot commit it to the 3.14 branch without blessing from both the release team and the localization team.

1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=1017844