- From: Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 23:46:41 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAFDDJ7znJZPt+6AVMMcFpXuLXMD=zEme0S11TFmNOwouQmHeeg@mail.gmail.com>
Hello all, The SVG Accessibility Task Force is hoping to publish new drafts of two specs in the coming weeks: - The SVG Accessibility API Mapping specification, https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/svg-aam/svg-aam.html. This would define how user agents should interpret SVG content when creating an accessible representation of a document. It includes, for example, the default ARIA roles for different elements. - The ARIA Graphics Module, http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/graphics.html. This defines new ARIA roles that would form the foundation of a description of structured graphics, such as diagrams. The img role from ARIA 1 is not sufficient for complex SVG, because it assumes that an image has a single text description, and no meaningful child content. The new roles would allow graphical objects to contain other objects with their own descriptions, and possibly with interactive components. I was hoping to have drafts ready for discussion at this week's meeting, but there are still a few details we're tidying up in Task Force discussions. Would it be possible to upgrade next week's spec editing session to a proper telcon with this on the agenda? Or the week after if that works better for everyone's schedules, but I would prefer not to wait another month. If there is time this week, I would be happy to give an overview of the specs, and outline the main issues which working group members may want to weigh in on. But I would also like to give you all some time to actually review the issues and notes. Best, Amelia P.S. Thanks for adding my viewTarget issue to the agenda, Cam. I had just been about to update the wiki with an agenda request, I promise...
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