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Re: Organizational Charts

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From: Moore,Michael (DARS)
Date: May 6, 2015 2:00PM

I have been thinking a bit about something that I read about future canvas accessibility either on this list or on twitter in the past couple of weeks but I can't seem to locate the article right now.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator,
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
(512) 424-4159 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Chagnon | PubCom
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 2:49 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Organizational Charts

Using today's existing document technologies in Word, PowerPoint, and InDesign, that's not possible because the graphic will be a <FIGURE> tag. It would be extremely difficult and time consuming to try and get the graphics aligned into List tags, if at all.

In HTML, you could code CSS to box certain elements and position them, but the vertical connection lines aren't doable.

So, I doubt our current toolboxes can do this, however, I do see some emerging technologies on the horizon that might make this possible in a few years.

--Bevi Chagnon

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Organizational Charts

Wouldn't it be feasible to tag a graphically presented org chart as a nested list structure?

Olaf