Re: [orca-list] Pdf accessibility in Linux was Re: Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

[Chris <chrys87 web de>]

Hi
I heard that  accessibility in evince works for sometime in the past.
See here:
https://live.gnome.org/Evince/a11y
It seems that a bug killed the accessibility.
I looked at the code, because i wanna help, but i m not deep enougth in
the atspi or evince stuff.
If somebody have a better knowledge of it and can explain me the hole
stuff, maybe we can fix it togehter. (it seems the documentations are
not realy up to date or maybe i m just to stupit ^^).

Oter Informational Links:
http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/a11y/tasks/evince/
The related open bugs for this stuff:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677348
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638905
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639403
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639932

I think its better to fix this bugs before somebody write a new talking
pdf viewer ;).

there is also an workarround to make the contant of the pdf easyly
accessible to users via copy paste ^^ but i never test the code and i
dont know if it still works.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2007-January/msg00005.html
Greetings chrys


Am Freitag, den 03.08.2012, 11:45 +1000 schrieb Jason White:
> Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> > It sounds to me like what we need here is for someone to write a
> > talking pdf viewer/reader. I really don't think creating such an
> > application would be all that difficult. After all, as has been
> > discussed there is an open pdf document standard used by a number of
> > open source applications. All we really need to do is create an
> > accessible graphical document reader using something like the GTK+ 3
> > toolkit, and then maybe wrap speech-dispatcher for speech output. 
>
> The challenge would be to implement tagged PDF, which is the part of the
> specification of most relevance to accessibility. As far as I know, there are
> no free software implementations of this, except for LibreOffice, which can
> write it but can't read it. I think ConTeXt can also write it.
>
> The solution would be to take the best existing PDF library and add support
> for tagged PDF.
>
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