The generated file doesn't include a PO template (something like po/orca.pot or po/gnome-orca.pot). When that is fixed, everything will work fine. The generated file is up at http://librarian.launchpad.net/4788767 /gnome-orca_1.0.0-0ubuntu4_i386_translations.tar.gz -- No translations for gnome-orca https://launchpad.net/bugs/68201