{"id":15,"date":"2013-09-04T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apuentes\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:51:49","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apuentes\/2013\/09\/04\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility in Evince"},"content":{"rendered":"

The primary objective of the Friends of GNOME Accessibility project<\/a> is to improve document accessibility.\u00a0 As part of this effort, Igalia <\/a>has been working in several areas related to PDF documents, focusing primarily on Evince<\/a> and poppler <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keyboard navigation in Evince<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caret navigation is more than just a enhancement for users who prefer it over\u00a0 the mouse; it is an essential need for users who are blind or visually impaired. Orca users, for instance, interact with software and\u00a0 information by moving to the thing they want to read. In the case of\u00a0 accessing document content, that requires the ability to move amongst\u00a0 the paragraphs, lines, words, and characters. As they do so, Orca presents the new location via synthesized speech and\/or refreshable braille. Likewise, using a mouse to select regions of text is extremely difficult if you cannot see where you are on the screen.<\/p>\n

For users with low vision, having to use the mouse frequently to move the content into the magnified view can be extremely tedious, especially at high degrees of magnification. These users will also benefit from the\u00a0 addition of caret navigation to Evince — as soon as the long-awaited caret and focus tracking support is added to GNOME Shell’s magnifier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the last few months, Carlos<\/a> and I have been working on the implementation of caret navigation. I am happy to announce that it is available starting with Evince 3.9.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n