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From: Bim Egan
Date: Jan 23, 2018 10:25AM

Thanks Léonie,
That is absolutely brilliant!

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Ways to make graphs accessible


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
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >

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