- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:12:45 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: chairs@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org, charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>, al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
Accessibility Honourable Chairs, on behalf of the disabled community, I would like to request that further work* and attention is paid to the accessibility requirements of SVG, before publication. In particular I draw your attention to the fact that whereas SVG 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ has an appendix 'H' titled: "Accessibility" http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/access.html there is no such appendix in the current 'last call' working draft http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/ I would further remind you that the discussion Note "Accessibility features of SVG" http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/ was last published 7th August 2000 and that there do not appear to be any revisions to reflect our current understanding. Please also consider this recent quote: "Alas, SVG and MathML are not accessible yet at all." from Aaron Leventhal on 8th October 2004: http://nostalsong.com/mozillalinks/html/links23_full.html#community It may be that the Working Group has built a strong relationship with the disabled community and that their needs are addressed in this document. However it would be helpful if this was documented in an appendix, together with a new Techniques document, and a further discussion Note expanding on the possible benefits of sXBL with regard to accessibility**. I commend the SVG working group on what they have achieved, and ask them to take one further step, for us all. regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" irc://freenode/accessibility *a talk "SVG and Accessibility" given at the second SVG London User Group meeting Tuesday 9th March 2004: http://www.peepo.co.uk/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SVG **an SVG Graphical User Interface document with links to a draft Accessible sGUI OWL schema is here: http://www.peepo.co.uk/launch/index.svg On 27 Oct 2004, at 22:39, Chris Lilley wrote: Dear Chairs, On behalf of the SVG Working Group [1], I am pleased to announce the publication of the 27 October 2004 "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2" Last Call Working Draft. The document is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/ Review start date : 27 October 2004 Review end date : 24 November 2004 Mailing list : www-svg@w3.org (public archive [2]) Please find below the following information: * Which groups should review this document * Decision to advance to Last Call * Patent disclosures * The abstract and status section For more information on the purpose of a Last Call review, please consult section 7.4.2 of the W3C Process Document [3]. The SVG WG looks forward to your review comments, Chris Lilley Chair, SVG WG Dean Jackson Staff Contact, SVG WG [1] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Group/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#last-call ======================================== Which groups should review this document ======================================== The TAG welcomes review from all interested parties including implementors of SVG renderers, of SVG authoring tools, content designers, and the interested public. In particular, we request review from the following W3C groups: CSS WG [Bert Bos, Chair] Compound Document Formats WG [Vincent Hardy, Chair] Device Independence WG [Rhys Lewis, Chair] HTML WG [Steven Pemberton, Chair] Internationalization WG [Addison Phillips, Chair] Multimodal Interaction WG [Deborah Dahl, Chair] QA WG [Karl Dubost, Chair] SYMM WG [Yoshihisa Gonno, Guido Grassel, co-Chairs] Timed Text WG [Glenn Adams, chair] Voice Browser WG [Jim Larson, Scott McGlashan, co-Chairs] WAI P&F WG [Alfred Gilman, Chair] XForms WG [Steven Pemberton, Chair] XML Core WG [Paul Grosso, Norm Walsh co-Chairs] XML Schema WG [David Ezell, Chair] The Chairs of some of these groups have already confirmed with the SVG WG their intent to review the document, at the Friday 22 October Hypertext CG call [4] or individually [5]. For other groups, the W3C Director will appreciate a response (sent to www-svg@w3.org) with or without review comments. [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-html-cg/2004OctDec/0012.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-svg-wg/2004OctDec/0524.html In addition, the following external groups are explicitly requested to review SVG 1.2: 3GPP [Robin Berjon, SVG<->3GPP Liaison] OMA [Vincent Mahe, SVG<->OMA Liaison] ================================= Decision to advance to Last Call ================================= The SVG WG decided to advance to Last Call, with no objections and one abstention, at their Thursday 21 October 2004 telcon. [6] Resolution: Publish Last Call with unmerged spec. [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-svg-wg/2004OctDec/0491.html ================== Patent disclosures ================== First public working draft of this specification [7] was 15 November 2002. A patent disclosure page is maintained at [8] Per the W3C Patent Policy, Working Group participants have 60 days from the publication of the Last Call Working Draft to exclude any claims made essential by the Last Call Working Draft not included in earlier drafts. The deadline for such exclusions is 26 December 2004. [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG12-20021115/ [8] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Disclosures ============================================== Abstract of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 ============================================== SVG is a modularized XML language for describing two-dimensional graphics with animation and interactivity, and a set of APIs upon which to build graphics-based applications. This document specifies version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). ========================== Status section ========================== This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/. This is a W3C Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 specification. The SVG Working Group plans to submit this specification for consideration as a W3C Candidate Recommendation after examining feedback to this draft. Comments for this specification should have a subject starting with the prefix 'SVG 1.2 Comment:'. Please send them to www-svg@w3.org, the public email list for issues related to vector graphics on the Web. This list is archived and acceptance of this archiving policy is requested automatically upon first post. To subscribe to this list send an email to www-svg-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. Comments are accepted until 30 November 2004. This document lists the changes from SVG 1.1. It is not a complete language description. This document has been produced by the SVG Working Group as part of the Graphics Activity within the W3C Interaction Domain. This document was produced under the 23 January 2002 CPP as amended by the W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure. The Working Group maintains a public list of patent disclosures relevant to this document; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) with respect to this specification should disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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