Enough Prototypes, let's do this for real

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:06:49 +0200

As of afew days ago, we decided we played enough with the tools and components of the linux accessibility stack to be able to say that we aren’t so ignorant anymore, we know at least the basics about how it all fits together, how our screenreaders read information from a linux gui app, how the gui toolkit and atspi work together to provide the required context for such tools to operate.

Since I don’t want to bore you with code snippets, git logs, conversations from who knows how much time ago and so on, I will quickly give you a rundown of everything we learned during this long, laborious but nevertheless fun and educational journey

Minimal speech-dispatcher Bindings Created

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:24:01 +0000

As of afew days ago, a minimal binding to speech-dispatcher (the TTS system for Linux) was created, which wraps the C functions provided by Nolan’s speech-dispatcher-sys crate in a safe Rust API.

rust on Odilia Screen Reader

Enough Prototypes, let's do this for real

Minimal speech-dispatcher Bindings Created