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Re: Accessible org charts

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From: Steve Green
Date: Nov 29, 2017 5:50PM

I am not familiar with either of those tools, but I don't think there is (or can be) a solution at the moment. Some content simply can't be represented using the HTML elements and attributes that we currently have.

For a simple organisation I think a nested list would be the closest you can get semantically, but I'm not at all sure a screen reader user would be able to make sense of it. It would be interesting to run some user tests.

Personally, I don't feel obliged to solve every problem a client comes to us with. I simply tell them it's not possible if I really think that is the case after considering all the options.

Steve