Doug, I am looking forward to contributing to, or reading the first draft... I was really suggesting something like http://www.peepo.co.uk/temp/ gui-schema# RDF Schema for the semantic description of Graphical User Interfaces to help improve accessibility.
okay that was 2004... but it did provide a theoretical means to repurpose content for user needs. this requires something at least as organised as a schema or microformat. authors may try to each create something helpful, but how is the uninformed user to style this into something they can use in a general way across the internet? imho SVG needs something like this if it is to be really useful. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 7 Feb 2007, at 19:36, Doug Schepers wrote: 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 ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
