SVG tools that aren't bad for accessibility

Hi,

I'm going to confess that I currently use Atom (plus some copy-paste) to  
create and modify SVG. That's not a very good answer for the real world  
question "how do I edit this SVG without breaking its accessibility?", and  
that's a question that is increasingly common.

I'm wondering of course if there are tools with good SVG accessibility  
support. In an ideal world, tools that conform to the requirements in  
https://w3.org/TR/ATAG and effectively demonstrate that those requirements  
are actually the right ones. Since that seems like a hopeless dream 20  
years since I looked at what it would take to make SVG tools conform, I'd  
be happy with

- doesn't break existing source, especially accessibility features like  
ARIA attributes and desc/title elements
- allows adding desc / title to objects in the drawing
- uses text elements for all text
- can use and optimise CSS

If anyone knows of something that good I would be really happy to learn.  
If anyone knows of a tool that just meets the first requirement, that  
would be very helpful information that I don't have (I suspect and really  
hope there is more than one though).

cheers

Chaals

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Charles "chaals" Nevile
ConsenSys Lead Standards Architect

Received on Monday, 30 August 2021 05:08:05 UTC