Re: Orca Accessible OpenDocument reader

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I met Henrik at LugRadio today (nice meeting you Henrik!). I had given a
> talk about the OpenDocument format, and demonstrated a simple ODF
> viewer. Henrik asked about making an accessible version of the ODF
> reader, something that would let people read ODF files right on the
> command-line, as plain text.
>
> Well... I just finished "version 0.1" of an accessible, text-only ODF
> reader. And I thought that this list would be interested:
>
> http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/152
>
> The way the original viewer works is by turning ODF into HTML and giving
> the result to a Gecko-based application. The way this reader works is by
> doing the same thing but giving the HTML to LynX. Persto! Now we have an
> accessible ODF reader that preserves document structure like headings,
> lists, and even hyperlinks.
>
> What do you think? Any chance to see this in Ubuntu one day?
>
> Oh, and if you want to know about me (who the heck is Daniel Carrera?)
> see here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielCarrera
>
>   

Great work Daniel!

It works nicely, and is of course blazingly fast :) (compared with 
opening OpenOffice for example)

I'm copying in the Orca list so they are aware of this too.

- Henrik