- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:07:26 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <s.livingstone@btinternet.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Steven Livingstone wrote: Is it not possible that we could (and there maybe is) use some meta description (such as RDF) to describe the multi-media? This could then describe what is at each part of the image and could be reads by a screen reader to give a description of the information. It would also be able to give some content which would be important for financial charts etc. CMN Welcome to the group! Yes, it is possible and there is work on the topic. See below. I guess for just now it would require that page creators enter some Meta information although I see no reason why this can't be part of tools as it is the next "thing" of graphics anyway. Vector graphics using XLM has had much work done on it and this could be extended to support accessibility (and maybe already hs???). (I am assuming XLM is a typo for XML) Yes, there is work on graphics in XML, a language called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation, and a year ago W3C published a Note called "Accessibility Features of SVG" at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access (I co-wrote it with Marja-Riitta Koivunen) which explored some of these topics. More recently Guillaume Lovet wrote a text-only SVG browser as a summer project to make use of this, and Ivan Herman of W3C collected some further observations on the topic. There is a discussion thread on this work in the public xtech mailing list - wai-xtech@w3.org - starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2001Jul/0000 Cheers Charles
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