An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux

[Sean McMahon]

Someone stop me if I'm wrong.  Gnome has it's own accessibility api.  Actually
there's one for gtk+ created programs, one for java and one for mozilla.  These
are of course free standards and have the potential to be more documented and
more accessible then those in windows.  How well gnome works I think right now
is more of an oppinion from those who use it, I'm not going there yet.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux


> Well, on windows, acrobat7 is actually the release that makes pdf
> accessible -- if you have jaws6 that is.  but it is interesting that a
> similar update is being created for linux.
> I'm not familiar with gnopernicus, but does anyone know what hooks are used
> there to make an app accessible? on windows it is MSAA.
> Or is the interface the same as MSAA?
> Just curious.
> --le
>
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux
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> That's interesting, since I seem to recall that adobee suspended that
> service a while back, due to the fact that acrobat reader 5 provides
> accessibility. Of course, they did fail to mention that you had to
> have a fairly recent windows screenreader for it to work (grrrr).
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> > Jinina and all,
> >
> > Don't forget about the service that Adobe provides that converts PDF to
> > either text or html formats.
> >
> > If you come across a pdf file that you want to read on the Web, you
> > simply submit the url to the adobe conversion tool and it does the
> > conversion for you and then you can read it with your browser of choice.
> > The text solution requires you to email the pdf file to adobe's
> > conversion tool and they email you back the converted file almost
> > immediately.
> >
> > So, you can already read PDF from linux if you need or so choose, to do
> > so.
> >
> > The Adobe conversion tool and all you want to know about it can be found
> > at:
> > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Stephen Dawes  <B.A., B.Sc.>
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