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

["Krishnakant Mane" <hackingkk gmail com>]

hi wili,
well, if that's the case then some one from the evince development
team could do it.
but will it be sufficient enough?
secondly, since this topic has come up again, Please can some one
provide a checklist of "to be known things " for scripting the
following in orca?
1, mozilla firefox.
2, openoffice.org
and
3, audacity?
what particular things would need understanding in all the above
softwares?  and if I for example decide to start reading the orca
scripts for openoffice writer and calc, what should I know in advance
even before touching these scripts?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On 24/06/2008, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> Hi Krishnakant:
>
> Rather than needing to know Orca internals, the Evince accessibility
> task requires knowledge about Evince internals and adding ATK calls to
> the Evince code base.  This has a bit of a steep learning curve, but
> someone with energy and good communication skills could probably pull
> this off.  It would be a big win.
>
> Will
>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
>
>> hi wili,
>>
>>
>> On 23/06/2008, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>
>> yes you are right and it needs to be taken very seriously.
>>> 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.  :-)
>>>
>> I have been raising my hand since quite long but don't know where
>> actually to start.
>> as a matter of fact wili, if you remember, I had asked some starting
>> point to script orca, so I think this can as well be the start.
>> So please some of you orca hackers, please point me to the proper
>> starting point.
>> happy hacking.
>> Krishnakant.
>>> 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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