AW: aria, SVG, browsers and bugs

Hello Chaals,

I can reply about ARIA in Firefox, but I have never used it in OS X. In the Windows version of Firefox used with screen readrs JAWS and NVDA and HTML, HTML5 the problems your report are not showing up. So I think it is a specific problem when using SVG with ARIA.

Ciao     Mario

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Chaals McCathie Nevile [mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 07. Oktober 2015 00:51
> An: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Betreff: aria, SVG, browsers and bugs
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have been working a bit on trying to make some SVG diagrams more
> accessible. This is a project that is partially documented on the W3C SVG
> accessibility Task Force wiki [1], and there are some attempts to produce
> something useful in the SVG accessibility Community Group's github
> repository [2] which I have described a bit in email [3],[4].
> 
> I'm running into a lot of bugs. I think SVG can be used in prime time,
> given that the best alternative is often longdesc in which you can
> actually put an SVG as well as some additional help. But there are a lot
> of things that would be really useful, but don't seem to work.
> 
> All my testing has been on a Mac with OS X 10.10.5 using the latest
> versions I have of the Yandex Browser (chromium-based), Safari and
> Firefox, mostly with VoiceOver - without it only Yandex lets me do simple
> things like navigate elements with a tabindex…
> 
> Among them:
> 
> I tried to use aria-flowto, to describe navigation. An example is a
> diagram of a chemical compound which is like a 3-pointed star - "the
> initial ketone" in [3]. As far as I can tell, it is at best unreliable,
> sometimes working if I use a single ID, and useless for multiple IDs.
> 
> In some browsers, aria-label doesn't seem to work, and I have to use
> aria-labelledby and point to a title element. It failed when I pointed to
> a text element, although as far as I can tell from the spec that should
> work.
> 
> I couldn't get role="img" to work for the case where the image was
> composed of various other things. I could use aria-labelledby to point to
> a title for a screenreader, but otherwise couldn't get one.
> 
> Finally, firefox wouldn't even let me tab to things with a tabindex
> attribute.
> 
> Are these known problems of aria in general, or specific to trying to use
> it in SVG?
> 
> Any comments, contributions, pull requests, or other thoughts are
> welcome…
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Accessibility/

> [2] http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/composed-

> tree.html
>      http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/composed-tree.svg

>      http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/chem-BV-ox.html

>      http://svg-access-w3cg.github.io/use-case-examples/chem-BV-ox.svg

> [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-a11y/2015Oct/0005.html

> [4] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-a11y/2015Oct/0002.html

> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 7 October 2015 07:01:58 UTC