After a very long development process, the Syllable team has finally released Syllable 0.6.6. This release comes with some significant improvements, most user-visible of which probably the new Syllable web browser, Webster, which uses the WebKit rendering engine.
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2008-07-15
I know we've got some Syllable devs around here, so this is primarily a question for them. Has any thought gone into accessibility for Syllable, either now or in the future? I've got to ask, seeing as how I'm an os enthusiast but severely limited on what oses I can actually look at by lack of speech output and a screen reading application in most of them. I'm stuck with Windows, *NIX, and OS X and to be honest I'm getting kinda bored. 
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Accessibility was something we highlighted when we developed the roadmap quite some time ago. It is not part of the short or medium term plans right now, but it will be addressed before Syllable 1.0 is released.
However Syllable does have a screen-zoom application, and some work on alternative inputs may be done for the next release.
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Username is "root", password is "root".
Edit: Actually you're dead right. It is documented in the install.txt, but that is obviously not much help for those of you who are using the VMWare image! We'll make sure to update the README and the Welcome document to include this information.
Edited 2009-05-15 18:15 UTC
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Perhaps you could build some kind of automatic hardware reporting utility. Something that automatically contacts yourselves with the hardware that works so you're not relying on users to manually contact you.
Obviously you'd need to get users permission before submitting the data, but at least, being an automated process, you make it easy for even the laziest of geeks.
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2006-01-22
I think that the syllable desktop must be ported on L4 or even GenodeOS to reuse drivers). But this is a suggestion and I do not have any code to put where my mouth is. But more interesting would be to port the HW base to Hurd and Syllable on top of Hurd, this way both can be happy.
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