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From: Maxability Accessibility for all
Date: Sep 8, 2015 7:53PM

Thanks Léonie . I will go through all of them and start with my knowledge
upgrade.
Thanks & Regards
RP


On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > 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
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> Plus a blog post with some of the research that went into the above
> article:
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> 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
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