[Kde-accessibility] PDF accessibility

[Bill Haneman]

Gary Cramblitt wrote:

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>Olaf Schmidt mentioned that we ought to have support for Accessibility PDF 
>docs in KDE and that should be a goal for KPDF.  I doubt however that most 
>documents are Accessibility PDF, so we still need a solution for them.  
>Someone should also take a look at the PDF printer and other PDF output 
>capabilities in KDE to ensure they produce Accessibile PDF.  I am pretty sure 
>the PDF Printer does not as it tends to produce image only.
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Note also that there is more to PDF accessibility than just text 
extraction; use cases such as magnification and physical/mobility 
restrictions place other requirements on the the viewer.  For instance, 
character position and bounds coordinates for onscreen PDF text, and 
keyboard navigation via a text caret, are both needed.  This means that 
just pulling out the "accessibility tags" even for "accessibile PDF" 
isn't sufficient.

>The best place for accessibility discussions would be the 
>kde-accessibility.kde.org mailing list.  Subscribe at 
>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility
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I would like to request that any PDF accessibility discussions also CC 
the gnome-accessibility-devel at gnome.org list.

Thanks,

Bill Haneman

>On the other hand, perhaps it should be discussed in front of the PDF 
>developers.  Where do most hang out?
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