- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:12:04 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@loc.gov>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
SVG exposes things through the DOM - a User Agent that conforms to the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines will export this information. There are also utilities available for getting the information out of images. If anyone is interested in working in this area, the Evaluation and Repair Tools group - http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER would be the place to go... Charles On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Lloyd G. Rasmussen wrote: Reading inside PNG or SVG files isn't something screen readers can do, if they are really reading the screen. If they are getting part of their information from something like MS Active Accessibility, then this might be possible. This is more likely to work in self-voicing browsers like Home Page Reader, PWWebspeak, Brookestalk, etc. But I don't think anyone is making use of text embedded in images. At 06:19 PM 7/10/00 -0700, you wrote: >Can screen readers pick up png metadata? > >It seems that 'separating content from presentation' is a fair description >for 'making site accessible'. Integrating the equivalent of an 'alt tag' >into an image file seems to be along these lines. Is there anything going >on to get rid of alt tags and put that information somewhere else? > > Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@loc.gov> <http://www.loc.gov/nls/> HOME: <lras@sprynet.com> <http://lras.home.sprynet.com -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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