Re: SVG and Screen Readers

> While SVG is designed with accessibility in mind, the accessibility User 
> Agents do not seem to be taking advantage of this.

I think there are a couple of reasons for this:

1) SVG is a minority medium at the moment, and assistive technology 
vendors generally concentrate on attacking those features in real 
life web page that cause accessibility problems - this means that they
don't necessarily support accessibility features in HTML well, either,
because authors don't use them;

2) even more than HTML, SVG authors tend to produce WYSIWYG documents,
leaving the AT with no sensible way of getting useful information from
real life documents.

Received on Sunday, 11 February 2007 17:45:48 UTC