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Re: Ways to make graphs accessible

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Date: Jan 23, 2018 9:07AM

On 23/01/2018 15:58, Vemaarapu Venkatesh wrote:
> I am eagerly looking for guidance on how to make the graphs accessible. Can
> some experts out here suggest me the reliable and best approaches to make
> graphical representation of data accessible to screen reader users and also
> of great help if some one redirects me to useful articles on this concept.

SVG is one possibility. It scales without loss of quality, text content
in SVG is accessible with Assistive Technologies (ATs), it's stylable
with CSS, and you can use ARIA to make some basic improvements for
screen reader users.

I wrote about making SVG line graphs more accessible here:
https://tink.uk/accessible-svg-line-graphs/


Léonie.


>
> Thanks,
> Venkatesh
> > > > >

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