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

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

may be some one could write to him and explain the importance to get 
this on a priority list if he has one.
Perhaps there could be some way he can be compensated for such an 
important work?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 08/03/2012 11:30 AM, Chris wrote:
> Ah :) thanks for the clarification.
> Am Freitag, den 03.08.2012, 06:52 +0100 schrieb Juanjo MarÃn:
> > Hi,
> >
> > All the accessibility patches never landed into master Evince
> > because the developer, Daniel GarcÃa, didn't have the time to
> >
> > correct some issues for its inclusion in master. He also made
> >
> > some patches in poppler, the pdf redering engine that Evince
> >
> > uses, and fortunately this was done.
> >
> >
> > As I tried to explain before (sorry for the Interleaved-Posting ),
> >
> > the good news is he's starting again this work. More work in
> >
> > needed to adapt it to the current version of Evince, mainly to adapt
> > the parches to the current accesibility framework.  He's doing
> > in his free time, so he can't provide any delivery date. I hope he can
> >
> > accomplish it ASAP :-)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >      -- Juanjo Marin
> >
> >
> > PS: the kind of workaround you mention should always work to some
> > extend, convert the PDF to plain text or html (for example with command
> > from poppler-utils) and read the converted document.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Mensaje original -----
> > > De: Chris <chrys87 web de>
> > > Para: orca-list gnome org
> > > CC:
> > > Enviado: Viernes 3 de agosto de 2012 4:44
> > > Asunto: Re: [orca-list] Pdf accessibility in Linux was Re: Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3
> > >
> > > 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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