Re: GNOME Newsletter...writing and editing

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hello folks:
>
> If you only have time to read one of the links I posted, please read the
> AFB whitepaper; it's short and to the point.
>
> Fixing this problem (or at least, attaining parity with Windows when it
> comes to PDF accessibility) is high on the accessibility wish list.

Actually, sun is working on a xsl fo -> pdf processor called xmlroff that 
will be use "gnome" technologies like pango for the basis. AFAIK they are 
based on Ireland - the project's cvs lives on sourceforge.

> To do it, we'd need both ends of the chain; since the Adobe tools for
> non-Windows don't include accessible-content support, nor does the Adobe
> non-Windows readers... we need content creation support.  Perhaps pdflib
> can be extended to write the necessary accessibility tags (basically
> redundant text info accompanying the content), providing the PDF 1.4
> spec is freely implementable as were the old versions.  Then we'd need
> to make xpdf or whatever pdf reading libs we use (pdflib again?) would
> need to be extended to read this same information back, and they'd need
> to expose the information in their UI via AtkText.  I suppose a simple
> component that extracted the plaintext and put it into a terminal, text
> editor, or GtkTextView would work fine as well.
>
> This would make a great project for somebody.... :-)

It sounds more like two distinct projects 8-)

> best regards,
>
> Bill

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