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

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>

> > 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?

I think that the "fork solution" should be discarded, until, at less,
try the other options.

BTW, probably you didn't know, but recently was aproved a funded
project to improve the accessibility support on Evince, checking both
popler and Evince itself.

More information:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2010-April/msg00025.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015#c47

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API (apinheiro igalia com)