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

[Juan Jose Marin Martinez <juanj marin juntadeandalucia es>]

Speedy,

Okular and Evince use the same PDF rendering engine, Poppler. In fact, 
Okular and Evince maintainers are the main contributors of Poppler.

GNU PDF was removed from the FSF High Priority Projects because the 
maturity of Poppler. Check the link below.

As Dani Garcia told us, some work is in on the road to provide 
accessible information to Evince. He patched Poppler to provide the text 
attributes to glib, used by Evince, and he's now working in Evince to 
provide the PDF information to orca.

Cheers,

 -- Juanjo Marin

Link:

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-pdf-project-leaves-high-priority-projects-list-mission-complete



On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:42:46 -0400, Speedy wrote:

> 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/ [8]
>
> DON MARANG
> Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org [9]
>
> On 8/2/2012 9:45 PM, Jason White wrote:
>
> > Thomas Ward 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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