On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 5:06 AM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sid, the new evince peackage no longer enables me to read pdf files > with orca. The browse mode with f7 moves the caret, but no screen reader > feedback. atril works, but not evince. > > We dont know wether the problem is related to something not implemented > in Evince 49, or at-spi does not have some useful thing. Is it due to > Debian or upstream? The response is not easy to do. > > We plan to reportbug to evince maintainer, but I think the support of > a11y team is useful tu help upstream devs or maintainers of the package > to track the problem. Otehrwise, atril may be the appropriate choixe for > future debian releases where we want to have pdf readable.
If you are able to also report this bug upstream, please do so. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues It was a huge project for Papers to support the orca screen reader. The UI for Papers is written in Rust so it's not directly helpful to Evince which doesn't use Rust. Papers is basically a fork of Evince. I apologize for not testing the screen reader before updating Evince to 49. That update is already in Testing. Papers is much better maintained than Evince currently and is the default in recent GNOME distros including RHEL 10; we ran out of time and energy to make the swap for Debian GNOME 13 but the swap has happened for Debian GNOME in Testing. Otherwise, atril is available. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
