- From: Robert Diblasi <rdiblas@wpo.it.luc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:23:09 -0600
- To: <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>, <svg-developers@yahoogroups.com>
Jonathan, Hello and thank you for voicing your opinion about accessibility to the SVG community.....I have done the same please look at the list below for just a taste of topics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/2676 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/3754 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/4230 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/4964 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/5094 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/8706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/8998 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/9184 I am going to be covering the topic on my site http://www.svgnotebook.com I would look forward to working with you if possible :-) I think SVG is/well be the graphic format of choice on the web. That being said....SVG ...a text-based graphic format.... can lead to many interesting application that can work for all communities on the web! You asked if there are others in the SVG community that are interested....I am one! I like to point out that solving accessibility issues not only help make communication easier individuals that use different devices.....it makes your web communications enjoy a greater market and anticipates new technologies .....like text-to-speech and and using telephones to listen to the web.....SVG is a cool visual format.....but it has the amazing ability to cross over and be understood by other technologies with out changing the code one bit.........If you think of each image as a object ......describe the object with "title" or "desc" element.....and then group. Then describe the group... and WoW! .....your have solved about 75 to 85 percent of the problems of accessibility ....this is just one technique ....there are other ways ....RDF is another.....I would be interested in what you have to say...... We all learn by sharing what we know Robert A. DiBlasi www.svgnotebook.com (building) >>> jonathan chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com> 12/18/01 08:14AM >>> How does one provide alternative images with embed*? sorry if this is a duffers question, however I'm becoming concerned at the apparent lack of interest in accessibility being demonstrated in the various svg groups. *using object we have: http://www.siliconpublishing.org/svgfaq/Starting.asp <object type="image/svg+xml" data="./mjr-svgopenwindow.svg" NAME="owMain" width="400" height="150" ></object> Yes, but put something useful inside the object (that's why it has separate start and end tags, unlike img) - a JPEG file, or a text description, or both. This will be displayed by systems that can't yet display SVG. -- jonathan chetwynd http://www.peepo.com "have fun surfing the net" http://www.learningdifficulty.org
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