- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:09 +0100
- To: OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
As part of working on ACTION-168, I am trying to read our documents using the VoiceOver screen reader (which is built into macos). (This is by no means the most common screen reader, fwiw.) One thing I notices is that VoiceOver, at least, with my current configuration, reads O and O' identically which, you can imagine, is horribly confusing ;) We might consider using an O, O1 or similar convention rather than O, OPrime. (Even when I up the verbosity, I get "O apostrophe" rather than "O Prime". (The ′ entity, alas, doesn't seem to be handled better, but it could be better.) Our diagrams don't have useful alt. Given that they are part of the specification itself with no proper alternative form (at the moment), I'm not sure what to do. There's http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com/accessibleuml.html With the hilarious, if brutally honest, line: """TeDUB was a European Union-funded project running from 2001 to 2005. It was intended to deliver a way for blind people to access arbitrary technical diagrams - engineering, architectural and so on. It failed to deliver anything on this front.""" They do have some advice on how to deal with XMI (the XML format for UML). I think having that as a longdesc at least would be much more useful. Of course, since we can already show/hide bits, giving an alternative rendering is a bit easier for us. Cheers, Bijan.
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