seconding what @Kate Deibel said - if you want to find out whether your final product is actually useful for a particular group there is no "magic button" substitute that replaces working directly with blind or low-vision users.
if you just want to cover some bases to avoid liability that's a separate issue. tools like openstreetmap have indoor mapping tools like https://osminedit.pavie.info that may interact with tools like openrouteservice.org and make actual wayfinding simplified.... ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> on behalf of Guita Lamsechi <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2021 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessibility in SVG Hi Kun, Do you also have a Legend accompanying your floor maps with textual description matching location information (i.e floor number) and labels? If you do not convert the text into an image it should be accessible. Best regards, ____________________ Guita Lamsechi, PhD MI (she, her, hers) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Aug 12, 2021, at 12:34, Kun Lin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: EXTERNAL EMAIL: I am creating a floor map in SVG. I thought I could add alt text to each region so that screen reader could read each region. But apparently not. According to this website: https://www.a11y-101.com/development/svg All you could do in SVG is add a title and description. Most screen reader won’t go into SVG. Kun From: Guita Lamsechi Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 3:20 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessibility in SVG Hi Kun, If what you want are text labels inside the SVG files for your library floor map, add the text to the images areas but do not convert the text to raster or vector outlines. Please feel free to provide additional clarification or reach out to me directly, if I can help. Best, Guita ____________________ Guita Lamsechi, PhD MI (she, her, hers) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> On Aug 11, 2021, at 17:58, Guita Lamsechi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Kun, SVG includes two elements for providing short and long text descriptions: The “title” and “desc” elements. This link on text in an SVG file may be helpful: https://www.tpgi.com/using-aria-enhance-svg-accessibility/ Best regards, Guita ____________________ Guita Lamsechi, PhD MI (she, her, hers) On Aug 11, 2021, at 14:47, Kun Lin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Hi Anyone has experience in creating accessible SVG floor map? I am wondering if there is a way to add descriptions in SVG to each block (path or rect). Or I am being limited to the alt tag in HTML. Thanks Kun
