Re: [orca-list] Orca Enhancement work

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

leena chourey <leenagour gmail com> wrote:
 
> Our efforts make a pdf document open in firefox. So from Orca when a user
> opens a pdf document (on a key binding) the document opens, as is, in
> firefox and Orca reads it from there - with this technique, the document
> formatting appears to be intact, Orca reads the document properly and this
> method is not restricted to any one particular pdf reader application. We
> have, at the same time, also enhanced Evince to support the changes that we
> have done, so if someone wants to open the document with evince then evince
> opens, but on a key binding the file is opened in Firefox and control passes
> there.

Have you implemented support for tagged PDF? This is currently missing in both
xpdf/poppler and ghostscript; there's a possibility that the GNU PDF library
(currently under development) may implement it if someone volunteers to do the
work.

In my opinion, the lack of a free software/open-source implementation of the
relevant parts of the PDF spec, covering tagged PDF and accessibility, is the
main problem in this area.