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GNU has been working on PDF libraries which seem to implement all
of the Tag functionality of the standard. GNU had this listed as
one of their top priorities last year! It was designed with
accessibility in mind. The plan was to build a totally accessible
PDF viewer, originally called juggler, now seems to go by the name
gnupdf (gnupdf.org). I believe most of the work on the libraries
are complete. Unfortunately, no effort has gone into the front end
application! GNU has also apparently lowered the priority or
stopped the idea entirely of developing their own open PDF reader!
Perhaps they think the need has been filled by other projects? There is an application, called Okular, which is rated well and available on Linux, Windows and Mac. Has anybody used this application and is it accessible? Here is a list of free readers posted by GNU: PDFreaders.org - Get a Free Software PDF reader! http://www.pdfreaders.org/ On 8/2/2012 9:45 PM, Jason White wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp |