On Thursday 01 September 2005 05:09 am, Bill Haneman wrote: > Gary Cramblitt wrote: > > ... > > > >Olaf Schmidt mentioned that we ought to have support for Accessibility PDF > >docs in KDE and that should be a goal for KPDF. I doubt however that most > >documents are Accessibility PDF, so we still need a solution for them. > >Someone should also take a look at the PDF printer and other PDF output > >capabilities in KDE to ensure they produce Accessibile PDF. I am pretty > > sure the PDF Printer does not as it tends to produce image only. > > Note also that there is more to PDF accessibility than just text > extraction; use cases such as magnification and physical/mobility > restrictions place other requirements on the the viewer. For instance, > character position and bounds coordinates for onscreen PDF text, and > keyboard navigation via a text caret, are both needed. This means that > just pulling out the "accessibility tags" even for "accessibile PDF" > isn't sufficient.
The immediate goal is to speak pdfs, but you are quite right about other uses. Brad is trying to develop a general module for converting pdfs to xml. The module could be used as a plugin for KPDF, but perhaps also in a general screen reader. The idea is to develop a series of loadable modules for extracting accessibility information from document contents. The module would probably be loaded based on mime type and perhaps would interface with AT-SPI. Do you know if there has been any work on a standard for such a thing? > > >The best place for accessibility discussions would be the > >kde-accessibility.kde.org mailing list. Subscribe at > >https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility > > I would like to request that any PDF accessibility discussions also CC > the [email protected] list. > > Thanks, > > Bill Haneman > > >On the other hand, perhaps it should be discussed in front of the PDF > >developers. Where do most hang out? -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
