SVG [WAS RE: Screen readers - usage stats?]

   

>>Whilst SVG does give special prominence to text, it doesn't 
>>allow for structuring that text at any level beyond a 
>>consecutive run of text,

>Or specifically, tiny runs of text, since it has no word-wrap,
>and just as with PCL and other page layout stuff, there is neither
>structure nor sequence to its XML based format. This makes it extremely
>hard to reliably abstract the text from the source document in a reasonable
>sequence.

>For a reader not admiring the beauty of the visuals, perhaps just wanting
>to abstract the textual information, its of little utility. 

Thanks to both of you for pointing this out. It seems I have been working under the misguided impression that
because SVG was XML it would be relatively easy to extract textual info supporting the image :-(

Back to the drawing board eh?

J.

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