Accessible PDF viewer
Linux for blind general discussion
blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 07:27:18 UTC 2020
We use the firefox buildin PDF viewer. Sadly the desktop document viewer are not the best choice accessibility wise. Attil and evince works a sort of, but are not the best IMO.
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> Am 10.03.2020 um 06:33 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>
> The best PDF experiance I know about currently is if you run Orca master
> with the latest snapshot of chromium or Chrome. The builtin PDF reader of
> Chromium is very nice, it places every page under a different landmark so
> you can navigate between them with m and shift+m. It even support a few PDF
> tags by converting them to their HTML equivalents, headings for example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rynhardt
>
>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, 04:07 Linux for blind general discussion, <
>> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu Mate Desktop seems to have Atril Document Viewer. If you press
>> F7 to turn on caret browsing it seems to be usable with some PDF files.
>> I have not used it extensively. You can also press control-a to select
>> the entire document and paste it into an Editor.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 3/9/2020 5:36 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> is there any accessible pdf viewer on Linux which can be used wiht
>>> Orca screen reader?
>>>
>>>
>>> Evince seems not to belong to this category.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
>>> Vladyslav
>>>
>>>
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