-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:12:05 From: Rastislav Kish <dmarc-nore...@freelists.org> Reply-To: o...@freelists.org To: o...@freelists.org Subject: [orca] Odilia, the new Linux screenreader written in Rust, reaches 0.1.0 Hello everyone, technically, this should perhaps be a little bit off-topic for this list, but given its importance, I consider it very actual. When I found out few months ago someone started building a screenreader in Rust for Linux, my first thought was this has to be an abandoned project. But I checked its history and GitHub activity, and to my big surprise, I found out the project is not just alive, but actually very serious about its goal! Since then, I've been watching their repos, and I was really impressed with the work being done! What is this all about? As you may have heard, Rust is a popular new middle-level programming language, which thanks to its innovative design, makes it easy to write very performant, fast and secure programs. Many pieces of software ranking from system components to applications have been recently rewritten to Rust and seen significant performance & safety improvements, Rust is now often the choice of developers for projects that would previously had been written in C/C++, but can now benefit from Rust's impressive safety and stability. Well, and now, accessibility developers want to bring the power of Rust to Linux accessibility, building a screenreader in Rust. After finishing with prototypes in the February of the previous year and starting the project from scratch, Odilia finally reaches 0.1.0: https://odilia.app/news/release_0-1-0/ This release is not by any means meant to be on par with Orca in terms of features, just very elementary things are implemented right now. Building a screenreader from scratch is a herculean task, requiring colossal effort, knowledge and, time. Therefore, this release is aimed for early users, willing to try new things and provide constructive feedback. There is still a lot of work to do, until Odilia grows into a full-fledged Orca competent. Nevertheless, it's still a very impressive work, and I wish the project a lot of success. If I'm not mistaken, right now, Linux is the only system in the world that has a Rust screenreader! Best regards Rastislav _______________________________________________ orca mailing list o...@freelists.org https://www.freelists.org/list/orca Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
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