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Post #1075131

2026-04-10 17:43 UTC

Any blind 3d printer users out there with a machine running some flavor of Marlin 2.1.x? How do you feel about running alpha firmware from someone on the internet to add accessibility? Claude and I hacked up an accessibility events system and a couple backends for it yesterday. Its still in the “hey does this even work" phase, and my eventual goal is on-chip speech synthesis for printers that can support it (at the moment the fork only has earcons and UI text broadcast over all serial links for a host device to speak). I still need to write the Octoprint plugin and work on synth support - is anyone interested in testing? (Super great pitch I know). https://github.com/Oliver2213/Marlin/tree/a11y #3dprinting #a11y #opensource

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  • @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io 2026-04-10 17:46

    Oh, it also has a mode to essentially make the touchscreen read-only (it can only select menu items, not activate - you do that with a button), you can enable the mode remotely via an m command, and tripple clicking the select button should turn it on as well.

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