Re: [orca-list] PDF accessibity works

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yeah. Joanie was kind enough to let us know about it. Thanks for your update. Have a nice day.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 7, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es> wrote:

> Hi there !
>
> Last month, the GNOME Foundation Board annouced the winning bid to enhance the accessibility of documents 
> within GNOME [1]. The announcement was made public in the GNOME web pages and in several social networks 
> like Facebook, identi.ca and twitter. However, I miss to send an email to this list the, sorry for that !.
>
>
> As many of you already know, the GNOME Foundation run a specific Friend of GNOME campaign in 2012 to get 
> funds for working in GNOME accessibility. Thanks to all your generous donations, we raised 20,000 US 
> dollars and Mozilla helped us with 10,000 US dollars more. Remember that the GNOME Foundation supports 
> accessibility hackfests every year and considers accessibility as an important topic to care of. So you can 
> still can help accessibility by supporting the GNOME Foundation [2].
>
> The winner bid was from Igalia, a Spanish consultancy company specialized in the development of free and 
> open source software. Maybe you would like to that Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs work in this 
> company, so they really know about the GNOME accessibility stuff and how Orca works. Also, Carlos Garcia 
> Campos, maintainer of the GNOME document reader, Evince, and co-maintainer of poppler (the PDF engine that 
> Evince uses) is in Igalia. 
>
>
> The main focus of this work will be to add Tagged PDF (ISO 32000-1:2008 section 14 ) support to poppler. 
> This means that Evince will be able to expose the content of tagged PDF documents as discrete accessible 
> objects with a significant amount of structural and semantic information. This, in turn, will make it 
> possible for Orca and other assistive technologies to provide truly compelling access to PDF document 
> content. As a result of this work, the support of non-tagged PDF documents will be also improved o the 
> greatest extent possible.
>
> I look forward for trying all this stuff !!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
>    -- Juanjo Marin
>
>
> [1]http://www.gnome.org/news/2013/06/gnome-accessibility-bid-selected/
> [2] http://www.gnome.org/friends/
> _______________________________________________
> 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