A Dimecres, 9 de juny de 2010, leena chourey va escriure: > Dear poppler developers, > > I am new to this list, and working on Gnome accessibility. To read pdf > document, visually impaired person uses screen reader, but very less > support is provided by the opensource communities. We are working in the > same line and trying to make pdf document accessible using screen reader > Orca. We have analysed various options in this reagard, that includes > exploration of evince document viewer, orca accessibility features for pdf > document and more. As a first step, we have decided to use pdftohtml > utility to provide pdf content in html format, so that orca can the pdf > content available in html format. > Observations while exploring poppler-0.12.4 (utils): > > - Poppler-utils has a pdftohtml facility to generate html file for pdf > document, Similarly with -c option it can generate the formatted html > file for corresponding pdf. -c generates file_ind.html, file_outline.html, > file.html and 1 .html & .png for each page of pdf. (please confirm) - > While working on this file.html in firefox, we have observed that this > links/contains only index file (file_ind.html) and file1.html (first page > html) file. To shift to another page, I have to click on that page from > index, which opens the corresponding page in new tab of firefox. So for > every page one new tab will open. (please confirm) > - I don't find way to return to previous page or jump to some particular > page. > > For a person with perfect vision, no issues in reading pdfcontent in > complex html format. But to ensure that the complex html format is as much > as similar to pdfdocument displayed using any document viewer and to make > html format more accessible and usable by a blind person, we found that > following issues need to be resolved. As mentioned above for > accessibility, now if a blind person reads file.html then following are > some issues : > > 1. Because file.html uses frameset/frame so orca is not able to shift > control from 1 frame to another. it shifted after reading full content > of one frame (with tab). Normal person can shift from frame to frame with > the help of mouse, but with tab it is not possible to skip no. of tabs. 2. > If a blind person want to read/shift to another page , it opens in new > tab, it will be confusing for her/him to handle no of tabs (1 for each > page). > 3. Some more issues are there related with content format can be > discussed in further communication > > To resolve first 2 issues, it is required to have changes in pdftohtml -c > utility, that will make html document more accessible and usable to a > visually impaired person.
Hi, i wonder if you know the people working on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28276 it would make sense to join efforts since it seems you are trying to achieve the same. Albert > > With regards > Leena _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
