Re: [orca-list] About accessible features of ROLE_UNKNOWN in evince

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2010 12:48 PM, leena chourey wrote:
> Hello Orca Developers,
>
> As explored and discussed with community people, It is clear that a 
> particular part  of evince application window does not have the 
> accessibility features.
> Currently Evince uses poppler lib to render content of pdf doc on an 
> unknown widget. Will it be feasible if we try to render the content of 
> pdf doc on an accessible widget in place of unknown widget? This will 
> require changes in evince application itself.

This will work, although I am not quite sure which accessible widget you 
are talking about?
But main thing is that the evince source itself has to change and that 
brings up a major question.
Will the evince guys be ready for such a fundamental change?
if not, are we thinking of creating some kind of fork on evince?

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.