Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marco Pesenti Gritti writes: > > ... ... ... The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers > > that exist on the GNOME Desktop, like ggv, gpdf, and xpdf with a > > single simple application. > > > So, if the goal is to replace, please tell us where you're at in terms > of supporting accessibility for persons who don't look at video screens? > Do you support alternative rendrings via AT-SPI, for example? If not > yet, when can we expect something like that?
Hi Janina, I'd love to make evince accessible, and it's definitely on our roadmap. There are some technical changes in poppler and evince that need to happen before we can do so, but we're much significantly closer to being able to do this than when we started. This is on my personal feature list, but I'm pretty busy nowadays, and I have a few features I need to get done first. As always in Free Software, if someone else wants to pick this up it will happen much faster. If you know anyone capable and interested in writing this, send them to me. We've got enough stuff done that they wouldn't have to be sighted. Some issues: * Evince supports several backends, such as tiff, postscript, djvu as well as pdf. I really don't see us getting full accessibility for any format other than pdf anytime. Tiff and djvu are giant image formats, and postscript might as well be. Maybe we can do something fancy with OCR, but that's outside the scope of this project ATM. * We currently don't have a caret in evince. We could add one for the atk interface, but I'm not 100% sure how this would work. I suppose we could add something like the F7 mode that epiphany has, but I've never looked too closely at this problem. * Between ATK's text interface being limited, and PDF's minimal semantic information, I don't see us doing much more than raw text and links. That's fine for now, but be aware that doing better is going to take some effort. Thanks, -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
