FYI - The Yggdrasil Screen Reader Project

[Linux for blind general discussion]

..and only software sources, which are inconsistent?
Their claim was to provide choices I believe, so if they are not doing that 
much, what makes it so wonderful?
Karen



On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> It's probably using speech-dispatcher.
> Devin Prater
> r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
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> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:50 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Have any of you tried this new screen reader?
>> Is it using Speak?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
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>>> On Nov 1, 2021, at 9:26 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <
>> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> FWIW, I just ran across this in Hacker News...
>>>
>>>> Accessibility on Linux has historically been under-developed,
>> under-maintained, and, therefore, gained a reputation of being quite
>> painful to use as a daily driver among disabled people. We want to change
>> that.
>>>>
>>>> Yggdrasil is a new project that aims to create a better Linux screen
>> reader, written in Rust. Through this project, we aim to provide a better
>> screen reading experience than the one we currently have in Orca. A screen
>> reader with all the modern features a Windows or MacOS user would expect
>> from their computers, some of which are outlined below.
>>>>
>>>>      • Object navigation
>>>>      • OCR
>>>>      • customisable navigation commands
>>>>      • a powerful add-on mechanism
>>>>      • and more.
>>>
>>> The Yggdrasil Screen Reader Project
>>> https://yggdrasil-sr.github.io/
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056168
>>>
>>> - Rich Morin
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