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From: Jim Allan
Date: Jun 5, 2013 12:09PM

Hi Jennifer,
so, what did you do in FF with JAWS to get anything other than the text on
the page and alt text? I could not interact with the SVG at all using those
tools. I am using FF21 and Jaws 14.

Jim


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Greetings, WebAIM:
>
>
> I'm wondering whether there is any additional information/more
> current reading regarding SVG-based interactive images. Steve
> Faulkner's article from August of 2011 is most helpful:
>
> HTML5 Accessibility Chops SVG text alternative example The Paciello Group
> Blog
>
> http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2011/08/html5-accessibility-chops-interactive-image-example/
>
> But I thought I'd double check to see if anyone had anything else to
> add on the subject.
>
> For what it's worth, I did look at the linked-to test page with IE 10
> and JFW 14. The experience was very different than with JFW 14 and Ff
> 21. It seems to me that JFW and Ff were more accurate, as they were in
> 2011.
>
> Thanks for any additional references/thoughts.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
> > > >



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