Re: GNOME PDF viewer app Papers

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> writes:


    Jeremy> For comparison, I tried getting Orca to read PDFs in
    Jeremy> Evince. The experience was very bad. I had to enable caret
    Jeremy> mode with F7; then it requires clicking a button in an
    Jeremy> infobar. Navigation there is awkward.  There is an option to
    Jeremy> "Don't show this message again." This feature works
    Jeremy> similarly in Atril which is a fork of an older version of
    Jeremy> Evince from the MATE people.

Actually that experience doesn't sound too bad to me.
I think sighted people underestimate what screen reader users consider
reasonable.
That said, I had no idea reading a document in evince was even possible.

I just tried evince.  Hey, that's really not bad at all.:-)


    Jeremy> I noticed that Orca support was exceptional in Firefox for
    Jeremy> viewing PDFs. Therefore, it is my guess that people who need
    Jeremy> Orca use their web browser to view PDFs, not Evince or
    Jeremy> Atril. I am asking this list if my guess is correct?


I do tend to use  firefox or pdftotext for reading pdfs in Debian.
I would not mind if you switched to a less accessible default,
especially if evince was still there. Given Firefox I wouldn't hugely
mind if evince was removed, especially given that I just learned reading
a pdf was even possible.