Re: [orca-list] viewing slideshows

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Orca will at best be peripheral here.  You'll need an accessible scanner 
package for g.u.i. environment that can make files on your hard drive in 
o.c.r. format at least.  If ou will need to understand graphics on those 
slides mathematics majors and engineers and systems analysis will, maybe 
you will be able to get useful output from graphvis package from those 
raw input files but you would do well to know graphvis now or know 
someone who can teach it to you as you attempt to read those files.  
Charts and tables are more useful than graphics especially for braille 
display users.  An application that could read a graph in from a file 
and convert that graph to a table/chart would open up all kinds of 
s.t.e.m. employment possibilities for blind people in a hurry.  The 
problem for such an app would be the quality of the translation; 
Microsoft and the Federal Government ran into this problem since Federal 
Managers used Powerpoint before Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and 
Microsoft's decision to remove outlyers and also not inform the 
preparers of Powerpoint slides that those outlyers were removed or give 
the preparers the option to restore those outlyers killed people during 
that Hurricane in New Orleans.  Federal Managers had no business using 
fault tollerant hardware; fault tollerant operating systems, or fault 
tollerant software in preparing life at risk presentations for anyone 
let alone the Congress.  Even without use of fault intollerant software, 
the issue remains how much of what gets translated into the table or 
chart for good to excellent quality and I wouldn't want to have to make 
those decisions.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Hussain Jasim wrote:

> I'm starting university, and a lot of my professors are giving me
> their presentation slides so that I can follow along on my laptop. I
> want to read the slide contents on a braille display.
>
> What's the best way to achieve this using Orca? My laptop is loaded
> with Archlinux and Gnome 3.12, for reference.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hussain
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jude <jdashiel shellworld net>