Comment 21 for bug 705677

If you are sighted and are encountering this problem in Ubuntu then you can go to system settings, universal access and on the seeing tab turn off the screen reader then log out and back in again. This turns off desktop accessibility, having orca not running isn't the issue specifically, it is at-spi being on that triggers it - orca just uses at-spi to get information from applications about what they are displaying.