Re: CfC on good practices for images

Charles,

What is the purpose of having a title on an SVG?  As far as I can tell, you
won't get a tooltip from a title on an SVG tag, so why not have a desc
instead.  Also why both?

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






From:	chaals@yandex-team.ru
To:	SVG WG axs TF TLA Ч-f ... <public-svg-a11y@w3.org>
Date:	05/01/2015 10:48 AM
Subject:	CfC on good practices for images



Hi,

thinking about the images we have, there are a handful of things I think we
should propose for all images:

1. Have a top-level title element
2. Have a top-level desc element
3. Don't have redundant markup if it doesn't serve an explicit, agreed
accessibility purpose

If any images fails to meet these 3 "requirements" I think it is reasonable
to list that as an issue, or propose a Pull Request to fix it.

I also propose that we allow requests that add an id attribute anywhere
anyone thinks it would be useful.

If people disagree with any of these points, please explain why. Otherwise
I expect to update the readme in the repo after next week's call, and to
start making changes in line with these principles at the same time...

cheers

Chaals

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