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CLUSTER READER-SCREEN-IMPAIRED · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-01-05

Assistive screen readers and Braille tools

This cluster covers assistive tools for visually impaired users, including Linux screen readers, a console reader, a French-to-Braille converter, and an IRC client with screen reader support. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only four dated entries exist before the index start, so no trend can be inferred. On traction, fenrir, access-irc, and yggdrasil-sr lead, each with 0 stars, indicating minimal external engagement.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2017: 1OCT 2021: 1NOV 2021: 1DEC 2025: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
JAN 2017OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 5 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Glance0★7 dayslivehobbyWindows screen reader that uses local AI to read on-screen content aloud in Japanese for visually impaired users.
  2. 02ttymap0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based map viewer that renders interactive globes in Unicode Braille from map data.
  3. 03accessengine0★1 mo—Cross-platform text-to-speech reader that uses system voices, ElevenLabs, and local vision models for accessibility.
  4. 04audio-smart-study0★4 moliveai-builthobbyVoice-based document assistant that reads uploaded lecture PDFs aloud and answers questions for visually impaired students.
  5. 05fenrir0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceConsole screen reader that reads text from the terminal for visually impaired users.
  6. 06access-irc0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceIRC client with screen reader support designed for blind and low vision users.
  7. 07yggdrasil-sr0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceScreen reader for Linux that provides spoken feedback to make the desktop accessible to visually impaired users.
  8. 08odilia0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceScreen reader for Linux that provides spoken feedback to visually impaired users.
  9. 09Convertisseur Braille Français0★unknownliveai-builtReal-time French-to-Braille converter that translates typed text into Braille for accessibility.
  10. 10EchoGuide - A script that listens to you0★unknownliveai-builtTool that highlights a script as the user speaks, aiding reading and accessibility.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.