Re: figure role backgrounds

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 16 September 2016 at 08:10, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
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>> You can just put them inside <foreignObject>...
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>
> i guess doing this;
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> <g role="figure">...</g>
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> is simpler and more appealing from a coding perspective than doing
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>

> <foreignObject>
> <figure>...
>

This is true, if the web author knows ARIA well. ARIA is cool, but one more
technology to learn. I wish the author were able to use HTML + SVG blocks
only to keep their products accessible. So that if the author wants a
figure in SVG document, then he should be able to use HTML:figure for that.


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> Regards
>
> SteveF
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>

Received on Friday, 16 September 2016 13:27:56 UTC