- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:35:47 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: w3t-comm@w3.org, David J Duke <D.Duke@bath.ac.uk>, Art Barstow <barstow@w3.org>, <marja@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Bob Hopgood <bhopgood@brookes.ac.uk>, David A Duce <daduce@brookes.ac.uk>
Dear all, I spent my last week or so picking up the work some people at W3C did on accessibility of SVG. Unfortunately, simply due to resource problems, there was no follow up on these for a while, in spite of the fact that SVG is becoming both closer to rec and more widespread in practice. As a short summary: an RDF vocabulary is to be developed to describe the content of an SVG image. This RDF description could be part of the SVG file itself and specialized readers can use those and some of the human annotation of the SVG content itself to generate a textual representation of the image. The methodology itself has been experimented with a while ago through the SVG linearization work (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ASVG/) but, as I said, there was no continuation of it since. This is where I picked up the issue again. What I have done until now is at: http://www.w3.org/2001/svgRdf/ I would really appreciate to receive comments on these, which would help us in moving towards a more mature version! One more remark: this may not be the only way to help the accessibility issue in SVG. One exciting, but very research-hungry line might be to consider a specialized graphics renderer for SVG to produce Braile output, for example. I know that some work have been done on Braile rendering before but it is still a relatively isolated line of work, but it might be an exciting line of work! Ivan Ivan Herman Head of Offices, World Wide Web Consortium C/o W3C Dutch Office hosted at CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam tel: +31-20-5924163 fax: +31-20-5924312 mobile: +31-62-8881369 (does not work when I am in the US) email: ivan@w3.org
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