Re: Can non-W3C technology meet WCAG? (was: RE:... NEW: Issue #1544)

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From: "Christophe Strobbe" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:27 AM
Subject: Can non-W3C technology meet WCAG? (was: RE:... NEW: Issue #1544)


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> At 20:56 13/08/2005, Bob Regan wrote:
>>(...)
>>I would add that this is the very same strategy used by W3 technologies 
>>such CSS and SVG. Further, to my knowledge, there are no configurations of 
>>user agents that directly render SVG.
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> Opera 8 supports SVG 1.1 Tiny (http://www.opera.com/features/svg/) but I 
> don't know how it works with screen readers (someone tried the beta of 
> Opera 8 in December 2004, see 
> http://trace.wisc.edu:8080/mailarchive/sec508/msg02287.shtml).
>

Native SVG (full 1.1) support is being added to Mozilla/Firefox.  It is in 
the development builds, but I have no idea when it will make it into a 
release.

    Neil