- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 05:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <dd@w3.org>
- cc: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@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>
there was a paper presented on tactile graphics using SVG at the CSUN conference on disabilities last March: Smart Figures, SVG and Accessible Web Graphics by John Gardner and Vladimir Bulatov http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2001/proceedings/0103gardner.html cheers Charles On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Daniel Dardailler wrote: > 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! By Braille, do you really mean tactile graphics (e.g. raised dots in a 2d map) ? For regular Braille (text), the conversion from svg to html gives you most of the solution. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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