- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:20:03 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org, courtney.christensen@viewplus.com
Hello, I collected some ideas and problems about what authors can do and viewers can do to get some useful text alternative from an SVG - maybe this helps as well for SVG fragments within (X)HTML: http://hoffmann.bplaced.net/svgtext/ It contains approaches using XHTML within SVG (following SVG 1.1) as well to improve the semantics of text alternatives. Obviously the alternative text presentation of viewers or readers have to manage this as well to enable authors really to add some basic semantics to text alternatives. In SVG tiny 1.2 on the other hand this is excluded for title and desc, therefore authors have to add it into metadata, maybe using RDFa or RDF (what is an option for SVG 1.1 as well). I think, there are good options to generate text alternatives, but this requires serious efforts both from implementors and authors, wanting to provide text alternatives for SVG documents representing really some relevant meaning, idea or content and nur just decorative funny color structures. Olaf
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