Lazaro the Smalltalk screen reader
Channel: FAST - Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk
Date: 2018-11-23

Matías Melendi, Angeles Tella Arena

All the Squeak-like implementations of Smalltalk are built as rendered environments inside an image, therefore, they don't use the native visual components of the operating system to build the user interface. This particular attribute makes them incompatible with native screen readers.

Lázaro is an application built in Smalltalk that helps blind people use Pharo connecting the image with text to speech synthesizers (TTS) in the operating system.