Re: Evince accessibility (was Re: [orca-list] sayAll command not working in adobe reader)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Krishnakant:

Rather than needing to know Orca internals, the Evince accessibility 
task requires knowledge about Evince internals and adding ATK calls to 
the Evince code base.  This has a bit of a steep learning curve, but 
someone with energy and good communication skills could probably pull 
this off.  It would be a big win.

Will

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

> hi wili,
>
>
> On 23/06/2008, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > Hi Krishnakant:
> >
> > What we need is a good hacker with the right skills to step up and
> > deliver on the GOPA task to make Evince more accessible:
> yes you are right and it needs to be taken very seriously.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015
> >
> > If anyone knows of such a hacker, or you are a hacker, please raise 
> > your
> > hand.  :-)
> I have been raising my hand since quite long but don't know where
> actually to start.
> as a matter of fact wili, if you remember, I had asked some starting
> point to script orca, so I think this can as well be the start.
> So please some of you orca hackers, please point me to the proper
> starting point.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> > Will
> >
> > Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > > hi aruni and wili,
> > > by co insidance, I was at a workshop yesterday and a visually 
> > > handicap
> > > person asked me about acrobat reader.
> > > I am aware about what wili replied about the bugs not being cared to
> > > by the adobe fokes.
> > > I feel this is exactly what happens generally with a proprietory
> > > software.  I think wili was right that evince must get more attention
> > > than acrobat reader.
> > > afterall what is wrong if we have a free (as in freedom) software to
> > > read pdf documents become accessible with a free screen reader like
> > > orca?
> > > infact in that case we may not have to run after the proprietory 
> > > fokes at
> > > adobe.
> > > not that there is any thing wrong in working on the acccessibility
> > > front out there, but as a free software hacker and seeing the
> > > bennifit, I believe that evince must get more attention for sure.
> > > happy hacking.
> > > Krishnakant.
> > >
> > > On 19/06/2008, Aruni Sharma <libranarsh gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Hi will, I would also like to add that I am not having much problem
> > > > with SayAll command in other applications like FF#, Writer,
> > > > thunderbird etc, as has been reported by some other people. Of 
> > > > course
> > > > I have to switch from gnome-speech to speech-dispatcher sometimes to
> > > > make it work.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > ARuni.
> > > >
> > > > On 6/19/08, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi Aruni:
> > > > >
> > > > > We've not put a whole lot of effort into Adobe Reader in a long 
> > > > > time, so
> > > > > it indeed might be broken.  There were enough other issues with 
> > > > > Reader,
> > > > > btw, that we deemed it something to back burner until they 
> > > > > addressed the
> > > > > bugs we filed with them.  At some point we may ramp back up on the
> > > > > Reader effort, but I would also like to see progress made on Evince
> > > > > accessibility:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015
> > > > >
> > > > > Will
> > > > >
> > > > > Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > > > > > Hello, The "SayAll" command is not working in the latest release 
> > > > > > of
> > > > > > adobe reader. Do I need some extra configuration files or 
> > > > > > something.
> > > > > > pls help.
> > > > > > Aruni.
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