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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Sep 8, 2015 1:29AM

> From: WebAIM-Forum On Behalf Of Maxability Accessibility for all
> Sent: 08 September 2015 06:30
> I am doing some R&D on SVG and how to make the content displayed with
> SVG accessible. Unfortunately I could not find much information online. Have
> any one worked on them who can give some tips to make a SVG content
> accessible or any pointers to the concept.

There is a W3C note on SVG accessibility, written by Chaals McCathie Nevile. It dates back to 2000, but still has some relevant information:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/

I wrote a SitePoint article with some tips on making SVG accessible:
https://www.google.com/search?q=SVG+accessibility&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Plus a blog post with some of the research that went into the above article:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/12/using-aria-enhance-svg-accessibility/

This article by Doug Schepers looks at authoring tools and SVG accessibility:
http://schepers.cc/authoring-accessible-svg

Chaals also gave a talk on SVG accessibility at FrontEnd Conf CH a couple of weeks ago. The slides are here:
http://tink.uk/fez/?#

Videos of the talks will be posted on the conference website sometime soon, so keep a look out to watch Chaals' talk when it's available:
http://frontendconf.ch/

Lastly, you might be interested in the work the W3C SVG Accessibility Task Force is doing. We're collecting requirements and other information here:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Accessibility

Léonie.

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Senior accessibility engineer @PacielloGroup @LeonieWatson