Re: [orca-list] accessible pdf readers

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

This may not be answering your question, but someone in the thread did 
say the following, so maybe this information will help them.


But now I am forced to reconsider having some proprietary tools
specially for presentation and pdf access.
 

On 3/13/20 10:58 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> The question was *not* about presentations. it is not even about things
> I write.
> It is about *reading* pdf's that are more complicated than few pages of
> text that are intended to be read top to bottom.
>
> W dniu 13.03.2020 o 16:56, Devin Prater pisze:
> > If it weren’t for Emacs, a lot of my job would be much harder. I write
> > Markdown, Org-mode, all that, and Emacs, along with Emacspeak, allow me
> > to get stuff done. I also convert stuff using Markdown, even a Markdown
> > file to Powerpoint.
> >
> > Also, if you don’t want to use Impress, what about Google Slides on
> > Firefox or Chrome?
> >
> > > On Mar 13, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Christopher Chaltain via orca-list
> > > <orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org>> wrote:
> > >
> > > True, but that doesn't mean Emacs, and the Emacspeak extension, don't
> > > provide good tools for a blind person. I learn new tools all the time
> > > to get my job done, and Emacs is such a tool.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/13/20 5:00 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > > Not everyone is using emacs :) and I am not.
> > > >
> > > > W dniu 13.03.2020 o 10:27, Jude DaShiell pisze:
> > > > > orgmode has tools for presentations and they're not proprietary.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This has been a major concern all the time.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have been a hard core open source user exclusively using OSS for
> > > > > everything.
> > > > >
> > > > > But now I am forced to reconsider having some proprietary tools
> > > > > specially for presentation and pdf access.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 13/03/20 2:55 am, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > Are there any *really accessible* pdf readers on linux?
> > > > > > Note, I do not consider evince accessible enough. First, if you turn the
> > > > > > caret browsing on, you can leave the document with tab or f6, but of
> > > > > > course you can never ever return to it.
> > > > > > Second, I could not press pdf links using the enter key.
> > > > > > Third, although that is likely least fatal, it does not recognize
> > > > > > tables. Although to be honest sometimes when tables have many columns
> > > > > > and rows  it actually becomes fatal.
> > > > > > When it goes to converting to html or text, they often lose much of the
> > > > > > formatting, and for quick looking this way is not always appropriate.
> > > > > > Especially converting to text loses everything that allows quick navigation.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > > > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > > > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > > > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > > > --
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Krishnakant Mane,
> > > > > Project Founder and Leader,
> > > > > GNUKhata <https://gnukhata.in/>
> > > > > //(Opensource Accounting, Billing and Inventory Management Software)//
> > > > >
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> > > --
> > > Christopher (CJ)
> > > Chaltain at Gmail
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Christopher (CJ)
Chaltain at Gmail