Re: authoring guidance

Having another SVG accessibility document or section won't help much
without having authoring tools use the accessibility features. I would hate
to spend a lot of time on documents and not see adoption and user agent
support increase. Once we get the taxonomy fleshed out, I would suggest
getting authoring tools using it be a priority. I am also concerned that we
suggest not inlining styles is useful, but we haven't created a tool that
can show how not inlining styles can benefit color blind, (non AT using)
low vision users or persons with cognitive disabilities.

What do you all want to have on the agenda for Friday? Go back to the
taxonomy or flesh out support for non assistive technology users?
                                                              
                                                              
                    Regards,                     Fred         
                                                              
                   Fred Esch                                  
       Accessibility, Watson Innovations                      
    AARB Complex Visualization Working Group                  
                     Chair                                    
            W3C SVG A11y Task Force                           
                IBM Watson Group                              
                                                              
                                                              






From:	Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
To:	Fred Esch/Arlington/IBM@IBMUS
Cc:	public-svg-a11y@w3.org
Date:	01/30/2015 02:28 PM
Subject:	Re: authoring guidance



I think the first step is to review all authoring guidance that is out
there, and identify what needs to be changed!

To get the list started, I did a search of the w3 domain.  It turned up:
      Accessibility Features of SVG, a W3C note from August 2000
      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/

      The Accessibility Support appendix from the main SVG specs
      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/access.html (SVG 1.1)
      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/access.html (SVG Tiny 1.2, added
      section on "user agent accessibility guidelines" which includes
      interesting ideas like providing color information or supporting
      directional navigation)
      https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/access.html (SVG 2 editor's draft,
      doesn't currently include the extra section from SVG Tiny, not that
      it's relevant anyway)

      It looks like that appendix was based on Charles MN's working draft
      of "SVG Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"; I don't
      think this document was otherwise continued, but I'm sure Charles can
      correct me if I'm wrong.
      http://www.w3.org/2000/10/wcag2-svg-techs-020318

      The section on <desc> and <title> in the main SVG specs
      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#DescriptionAndTitleElements
      (SVG 1.1)
      https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/struct.html#DescriptionAndTitleElements
      (SVG 2 editor's draft)

      The section on WAI-ARIA attributes in the SVG 2 draft spec
      https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/struct.html#WAIARIAAttributes

      Various parts of the Interactivity chapter in SVG 2
      https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/interact.html

      Some work on "SVG Linearization" from 2002:
      http://www.w3.org/2001/svgRdf/

      A few "SHOULD" statements referencing SVG elements in the main
      WAI-ARIA specs (nothing controversial, search the page for "svg"):
      http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles

      More links, ideas, and discussion on various mailing lists and
      working group wiki pages, e.g.
      http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/Accessibility_Activity
      http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Accessibility_Issues
      http://www.w3.org/community/infographics/wiki/Main_Page

ABR

On 30 January 2015 at 11:28, Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com> wrote:
  We had a good discussion today on authoring guidance. What should be our
  next steps concerning authoring guidance?





                                                      
              Regards,                    Fred        
                                                      
             Fred Esch                                
 Accessibility, Watson Innovations                    
 AARB Complex Visualization Working                   
            Group Chair                               
      W3C SVG A11y Task Force                         
          IBM Watson Group