Re: FYI - The Yggdrasil Screen Reader Project

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Hi,
Have any of you tried this new screen reader?
Is it using Speak?

Thanks,
Rob


> On Nov 1, 2021, at 9:26 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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