RE: SVG accessibility - how capture the reading order of text

Al wrote:
> If I recall correctly, what I took away from that exercise 
> was that it is
> preferrable to put the text in the XML in a reasonable 
> reading order, and to
> textref it into the layout from there.
> 
> While it is mathematically possible to re-assemble the 
> reading order by
> threading created in the markup, it is an inferior solution 
> in that authoring
> processes are unlikely to get it right.  The experience we 
> have had with
> TABINDEX in HTML is relevant and cautionary.  [Not a 
> rule-out, but genuinely a
> warning.]

DaveP. Agreed, is this one for the next SVG round?
  To add it to the accessibility section?

the XY solution failed because the visual content was arranged
in a two column table format.

Linear extraction of text elements in document order would
be very successful.

Regards DaveP
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Received on Monday, 10 September 2001 03:36:54 UTC