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Re: Accessible flow charts or diagrams

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Sep 16, 2011 8:39AM

This should be a visio layer or functionality if you ask me.

Flow charts are a set of visual components, each with relationship
attributes. Such information should be encodable such that the name,
and attributes including navigation attributes are exposed to assistive
technologies.
Org charts are basically just hierarchical lists, so should be
presentable as such--but visual design sometimes gets in the way of
quick transcription. When visual design leads to unclear hierarchical
topology, the actual org chart is probably not effective in the first
place and should be reconsidered by the author--it is a basic function
of an org chart to impart such hierarchical relationships, and if it
doesn't do so, ...?

Just some food for thought.