Evince accessibility (was Re: [orca-list] sayAll command not working in adobe reader)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Krishnakant:

What we need is a good hacker with the right skills to step up and 
deliver on the GOPA task to make Evince more accessible:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015

If anyone knows of such a hacker, or you are a hacker, please raise your 
hand.  :-)

Will

Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> hi aruni and wili,
> by co insidance, I was at a workshop yesterday and a visually handicap
> person asked me about acrobat reader.
> I am aware about what wili replied about the bugs not being cared to
> by the adobe fokes.
> I feel this is exactly what happens generally with a proprietory
> software.  I think wili was right that evince must get more attention
> than acrobat reader.
> afterall what is wrong if we have a free (as in freedom) software to
> read pdf documents become accessible with a free screen reader like
> orca?
> infact in that case we may not have to run after the proprietory fokes at adobe.
> not that there is any thing wrong in working on the acccessibility
> front out there, but as a free software hacker and seeing the
> bennifit, I believe that evince must get more attention for sure.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
> On 19/06/2008, Aruni Sharma <libranarsh gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi will, I would also like to add that I am not having much problem
> > with SayAll command in other applications like FF#, Writer,
> > thunderbird etc, as has been reported by some other people. Of course
> > I have to switch from gnome-speech to speech-dispatcher sometimes to
> > make it work.
> > Thanks,
> > ARuni.
> >
> > On 6/19/08, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > > Hi Aruni:
> > >
> > > We've not put a whole lot of effort into Adobe Reader in a long time, so
> > > it indeed might be broken.  There were enough other issues with Reader,
> > > btw, that we deemed it something to back burner until they addressed the
> > > bugs we filed with them.  At some point we may ramp back up on the
> > > Reader effort, but I would also like to see progress made on Evince
> > > accessibility:
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > > > Hello, The "SayAll" command is not working in the latest release of
> > > > adobe reader. Do I need some extra configuration files or something.
> > > > pls help.
> > > > Aruni.
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