Hi, Jonathan-

Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> 
> the query resolves to "was the tag tree conceived and designed with  
> navigation by the blind in mind"
> or is it tag soup ~:" leaving all the work to the UA.
> 
> something like the old html mess we got in before xhtml, but very  
> different.

There is no mandated content tree, because the possibilities are 
practically limitless.

There are very well-thought-out aspects to the structure in the spec, 
including having the 'title' and 'desc' elements as child elements 
(rather than as i18n-unfriendly attributes), and the ability to group 
elements together (which has no affect on rendering, but allows the 
author to include some logical structure into the file).  Note that 
Opera already displays a tooltip when you use the 'title' element, and 
does so in a very smart way (with greater preference towards child 
titles than parent titles).

Basically, it comes down to authoring.  This is what the updated SVG 
Accessibility Note will describe.  I will be sure to include explicit 
examples.  Control (buttons, sliders, and such) are obvious examples, 
but there are many other types of content that can benefit (such as 
maps, diagrams, etc.).

As must be obvious, creating properly structured documents with working 
metadata and thoughtful navigation makes your content more usable to 
everyone (including you, for reuse), not just those with vision problems.

Regards-
-Doug


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