RE: SVG accessibility - title, description and what to do with it

> Do you have a clear model for the way an SVG user agent 
> should interact with
> assistive technology with respect to Title and Description? If I were
> linearizing an SVG document, should the linearized version 
> include all titles
> and/or descriptions? Should it stop descending the hierarchy 
> as soon as it
> encounters a description? Are descriptions attached to nodes 
> of a complex
> graphic each intended to be a stand-alone replacement for the 
> attached node?
> Should they assume the context of encompassing descriptions?

Charles and I played with this some time ago, with a particularly nasty
piece of text in SVG.

I tried using relative positions, to sort out the ordering of text
elementw within the page, i.e. using the xy positions to determine
the order of presentation. It didn't work particularly well for that
example. I was using xslt to obtain text elements, titles etc.

Charles, you did something different IIRC, which produced an improvement?

Regards DaveP

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