WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Accessible flow charts or diagrams

for

From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Sep 15, 2011 12:15PM

I think you make valid points here.
Conceptually for me as a screen reader user, I would like to be able to
follow flow charts in an arrow fashion with each step having associated
attributes. Kind of like navigating a table structure, but each cell
contains content and attributes--such as condition and branch point
options. I believe some kind of Excel spreadsheet could be created with
this concept in mind, but PDF does lend itself to much of this thinking
and would definitely lower the coding level for keeping visual
appearance separated from the tagging portions. I have not seen
successful examples of either of these methods to date, but feel either
method may work for some situations if sufficient planning were done
upfront. for org charts, a dropdown box with levels would also work.