Re: [orca-list] Trouble accessing Acrobat in Ubuntu 9.04 x64

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi
Actually Will, while you're completely right about Acrobat's issues,  
that's not what Bill is experiencing here. What's happening is the  
incompatibility between 64-bit GNOME and 32-bit GTK applications in  
Linux where accessibility is concerned, since the 64-bit accessibility  
modules (like any other library) will not load with a 32-bit  
application in Linux, such 32-bit apps are not accessible. There are  
ways to work around it by manually getting the required modules and  
putting them in the right place, but even then trying to mix and match  
these modules, both 64 and 32 and given the gail and atk modules are  
the same otherwise, can make a system very unstable and can introduce  
other oddities.
It's a can of worms indeed, just a different can of worms in this case.


On Jul 13, 2009, at 08:37, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hi Bill:
>
> PDF accessibility is a can of worms.  The discussion flares up here  
> from time to time, with the main results being the same: 1) Adobe  
> has some work to do, and 2) Evince seems like the best place to  
> invest in for an open source accessible PDF viewer.  We need a  
> qualified person to step up to take control of the Evince task.
>
> In the mean time, you can kind of make Acroread limp along, but the  
> a11y support is somewhat suboptimal: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Acroread
>
> Will
>
> Bill Cox wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I'm trying to improve my listening skills, so I thought I'd use Orca
> > to listen to a few books.  I have some books in PDF format, but
> > Acrobat is not accessible to Orca.  I pulled up Accerciser, and
> > Acrobat isn't even listed as an application.  Is this because I'm
> > running 64-bit Ubuntu, and Acrobat is 32?  Is there a more accessible
> > PDF reader?
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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