Re: [orca-list] a feature request for which I have a solution.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Krishnakant:

I believe your thinking is right in line with what is written up at the 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DocRewrite I sent out after soliciting 
feedback with my "Help write Orca docs" thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2009-September/msg00099.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2009-October/msg00076.html

With the exception of the mechanics (i.e., you want to use LaTEX where I 
want to use things that will mesh better with GNOME), I believe we're 
thinking the same things.

Please also be aware that the content available in the GNOME 
Accessibility Guide is included with a GNOME install.  As such, you do 
not need to access the internet to get to it.  When you press the "Help" 
button in the Orca GUI, for example, the "yelp" application is launched 
and it accesses the local copy of the guide.

Please take a look at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DocRewrite and add some 
comments to it if you think things should go in a different direction. 
I'd rather not have us duplicate efforts.  We have so few people that 
any duplication can be a needless waste.

Will

Krishnakant wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 14:36 +0530, Arky wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 19/10/09, Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com> wrote:
> > > What I want to request is
> > > that we should
> > > include this as the manual which can come in the help
> > > option of orca.
> > > So if some one hits enter on help button this manual is
> > > also provided as
> > > getting starting.
> > KK, 
> >
> > Why not help out with Gnome Accessibility Guide itself. I think Mallard document format is easy to learn.
> >
> >
> > Share your ideas here on this page http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DocRewrite
>
> Yes indeed it will be my pleasure to do that, but at the same time the
> point I raised here was a bit different.
> Rather look at the other aspect.  When you take a proprietory screen
> reader, you get the manual with it and not requiring to connect to the
> internet.
> Imagine in India for example in so many places there is hardly any
> internet facility available.  Should these people be kept away from
> learning orca?
> It's perfectly ok to put the documents on-line infact that should be one
> of the biggest prioritys.  The advantage would be that peop.people can
> directly contribute to it.
> But having it off-line and built with orca is equally important.
>
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
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