[Okular-devel] Okular - Speak text functionality for blind people

[Max Nicosia]

Hello there,

I am a Comp Sci student from the University of St Andrews, helping out (at
DTU Denmark) with a project to make computers more accessible to blind
people.

The main interest at the moment is to get blind people to use PDF's easily
and effectively (under Linux), so I have been asked to contact the
development groups of the main Linux pdf readers and see if they are working
towards implementing such functionality and offer collaboration, or maybe
even start on my own.

At these stage I haven't looked the the implementation of Okular yet, but
Okular's speak function is very close to what would be necessary for a blind
person to read pdfs.

Could you please let me know if someone is already working towards this so I
don't duplicate work?

In the case that there isn't anyone working on this, I would be happy to
start. However I would need to look at the implementation of the other pdf
readers to see which one would be quicker to implement, as DTU is very keen
on getting something working rather sooner than later (there are some time
constraints).

Thanks a lot
Max
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