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Re:People with blindness can read again after retinal implant by itsmenow on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:29PM (#45707485)
Just out of curiosity, do you have thoughts on what some of the most useful projects are to those in your position, that one could contribute to?
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Re:People with blindness can read again after retinal implant by lynx97 on Sunday October 26, 2025 @04:28AM (#45710040)
It depends.

Windows: Definitely NVDA (github.com/nvaccess/nvda) Linux: AT-SPI, ATK, Orca for the graphical side of things. The console/terminal is pretty well supported.

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Re:People with blindness can read again after retinal implant by itsmenow on Sunday October 26, 2025 @09:04AM (#45711505)
Thanks for those links. I recently looked for a plugin that reads highlighted text in firefox that "just works"... but found limited success (this was on linux). But really great to see that there are large-scale, OS-level already established FLOSS projects out there.
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