Master thesis on SVG accessibility

Hi all!

I am student of Information and Computer Engineering at the Graz 
University of Technology (Austria) and intend to start my master thesis 
in October. As I am blind, I would be highly interested in writing about 
a topic in the field of web accessibility.

One of my professors, who mainly researches on data visualisation, had 
the idea that my thesis could deal with the accessibility of SVG, which 
seems very interesting to me, too. However, reading some publications 
about this topic (i.e., some of the recent W3C recommendations or 
recommendation proposals, respectively, as well as some texts and 
presentations by Doug Schepers and Léonie Watson), I got the impression 
that much good work has already been done on this. For this reason, I'd 
like to ask you for your opinions: Do you think that with a master 
thesis on the accessibility of SVG I could contribute to its 
improvement? If so, is there any work for me which you would regard as 
particularly valuable at the moment? It would be great if this could 
include any kind of implementation but I'm also fine with some analysis, 
testing, or evaluation. For example, I think of a tool (or maybe even 
better, a patch to a browser or screen reader) that transforms all 
usable information of an SVG document into a form that is 
well-comprehensible for a blind user, taking Doug Schepers' "Describler" 
as a starting point. Another idea of mine would be a patch to an SVG 
authoring tool or an SVG scripting library like 3d.js that improves the 
accessibility of the resulting SVG structures.

Thank you very much in advance for your feedback and any suggestions!

Cheers,

    Chris

Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2018 06:33:51 UTC