Re: Orca and Acrobat

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Joanie:

> I'm certainly willing to squeak. <smile>  However, I think it's
> important to squeak in an informed fashion.  So I just installed Acrobat
> Reader 7.0.8.  The install itself was somewhat problematic --
> independent of accessibility.  That said, once I got the kinks worked
> out and enabled accessibility, I was able to read their help file (a
> PDF) using Orca.  

That's a lot further than I've been able to get.  When I arrow around a
document using caret navigation, I don't see any caret-moved events
coming into Orca.  How were you able to read the document?

> I suppose this is all a long way of saying: Do we know exactly what was
> broken so that we can ask specifically for it to be fixed? Or was it
> expected that I wouldn't be able to access PDFs at all using Orca?

I think we need to find the right way to log and track bugs.  I'm not
sure if there's a convenient mechanism to do this, or if we need to go
the backdoor e-mail route.  Let's both poke and see what we can come up
with.  

Adobe has definitely helped us in the past (we wouldn't have had an
accessible acroread for Linux at one time if they hadn't), and I think
all we need to do is find the right person to help us out.  Although we
have already let some folks in Adobe know of this problem, it is a big
company and we might have been talking people who were unempowered to
put resources on the problem.

In addition, maybe Andrew Kirkpatrick
(http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/) might be able to provide us with
some guidance and insight.  I've BCC'd him on this e-mail -- even though
I was able to use Google to discover his e-mail address, I'm still shy
about posting people's e-mails to a public forum.

Will