Some work on SVG accessibility

Hi folks,

this group has been very quiet. Largely because there is an SVG  
Accessibility Task Force inside the SVG working group, that does stuff. If  
you want to know more, please ask.

Meanwhile I have also been (very slowly) putting together some stuff in  
our github repository. So far I have lots of examples of SVG that is  
horribly inaccessible.

The goal is to work over them all, and make them accessible. So far I have  
managed to put a bunch of time into one (1) file. I got it to a stage  
where you can explore various aspects under various conditions, and I am  
interested in how well it works for different people with different setups.

There is a version that is pure SVG:  
<http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/chem-BV-ox.html> and  
an equivalent that might be more accessible, which is almost the same SVG  
embedded in HTML:  
<http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/chem-BV-ox.html>

If people want to give me their github usernames I can authorise them to  
work with the repository directly - alternatively send Pull Requests (if  
you're reasonably confident about using github) or write to me with  
proposed changes and explanations.

I wrote some rough notes on what I did to make it accessible, and why:  
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-a11y/2015Oct/0002.html>  
and at some point I'll add a document called ...filename-notes.html or  
something that collects all the wisdom, and all the weird results.

One thing that is really obvious is that the world would be a better place  
if we had lots of SVG accessibility tests. Simple things like "can you  
discover the title of this SVG?" "What if there are 2?" "What if it is  
embedded as inline code in an HTML doc? Or as an object or img?…" there  
are about a zillion etceteras that I have already run across, and as I  
find time (hah!) I'll start trying to put some together, so we can begin  
to build canEveryoneUseSVG.com …

(If you register that domain tomorrow, and let us put results there, I'll  
be very grateful to you and may even provide a fine bottle of russian  
vodka, or spanish wine, or an Australian cheese, or something as a reward).

cheers

Chaals

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Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:03:29 UTC