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 05:08:03 UTC