Re: GNOME Newsletter...writing and editing

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:56, Sander Vesik wrote:
>
> > Bill Haneman wrote:
> >
> > > Hello folks:
> > >
> > > If you only have time to read one of the links I posted, please read the
> > > AFB whitepaper; it's short and to the point.
> > >
> > > Fixing this problem (or at least, attaining parity with Windows when it
> > > comes to PDF accessibility) is high on the accessibility wish list.
>
> > Actually, sun is working on a xsl fo -> pdf processor called xmlroff that 
> > will be use "gnome" technologies like pango for the basis. AFAIK they are 
> > based on Ireland - the project's cvs lives on sourceforge.
>
>
> I have talked to the project folks.  Dunno how public it is, but since
> you've spilled the beans already ;-)

Somerthing that was announced at teh xml confrence, posted about to a 
couple of websites and is a project on sourceforge can't possibly be 
nonpublic. Besides, I heard about it from Owen, and he didn't say it was 
non-public 8-)

> it currently can't do any accessibility, since it is based on a (hacked)
> pdflib that has no accessibility support either.  So the content it
> generates is "100% inaccessible" (at least with respect to so-called PDF
> accessibility).
>
>
> > It sounds more like two distinct projects 8-)
>
>
> I think almost all the work would need to be in the same library...so
> maybe not.

I'd still think of the 'making accessible' part of the work onthe pdf 
display widget as conceptualy separate from pdflib enhancement

> > > best regards,
> > >
> > > Bill



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