Re: Evince no longer makes PDF readable with Orca

Le 18/02/2026 à 12:25, Jeremy Bicha a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 5:06 AM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> […]
>>
>> We plan to reportbug to evince maintainer, but I think the support of
>> a11y team is useful tu help upstream devs or maintainers of the package
>> to track the problem. Otehrwise, atril may be the appropriate choixe for
>> future debian releases where we want to have pdf readable.
> 
> If you are able to also report this bug upstream, please do so.
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues

Done as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/2136, and I also 
set the forwarded address on the Debian bug [1].

> It was a huge project for Papers to support the orca screen reader.
> The UI for Papers is written in Rust so it's not directly helpful to
> Evince which doesn't use Rust.

I would think that although it's not gonna be a mere copy & paste, it's 
actually likely to help a lot in how it can be achieved, even if the 
actual implementation would have to be adjusted.  It might make a very 
hard work for the Evince developers into something fairly accessible 
(pun intended :))  But that would ultimately be for whoever finds time 
and will to work on this to say.

Regards,
Colomban

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1128322