Tag: release

Odilia Version 0.1.0 Released

Published on March 21, 2023 by BGT Lover, tait· 3 minutes read

After many months, in fact, just over a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the initial, beta release of Odilia: a new, fast, lightweight screenreader for Linux, written in rust for maximum speed and efficiency. Thanks to all the others who have been instrumental in making Odilia possible: @albertotirla (BGTLover) @mcb2003 (Fake VIP) @luukvanderduim (Luuk Van Der Duim) @samtay (Sam Tay) Federico Mena and Emmanuel Bassi at GNOME for answering my questions. Read More

One More Thing - Final Prototype Released

Published on February 12, 2022 by TheFake VIP· 3 minutes read
Edited on March 17, 2022 by TheFake VIP

As we announced recently, we decided that we’d learned enough from the Odilia prototype to actually implement the real thing. The prototype code, while functional, prioritised experimentation over quality, and thus we’ll be throwing almost all of it out completely, but the code is far less important than the experience we gained from writing it.

The First Prototype Has been Released!

Published on October 26, 2021 by BGT Lover· 3 minutes read

We know it has been a long time, however we are delighted to inform you that the first Odilia prototype is up on GitHub, with a very early alpha stage build for anyone curious enough to try it out. If you want to try it out, the link is here: https://github.com/yggdrasil-sr/yggdrasil-prototype/releases/ the screen reader can’t do much at the moment, however this is what it can do so far like any normal screen reader, it can read most components exposed by the Linux accessibility interface, such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. Read More