Re: Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers

Did you ever try using a screen reader on it yet?

Is the problem that you still can't select the text from the html page?

I'm not sure, but I think I found the section of the CSS Tricks article you're 
using, which you need the most.  It's about halfway down the page (a little 
less) called "Complex images - An Accessible Graph".

#1 - "Setting up the file" starts with ordering the layers.  You only have one 
layer, so it might be that you need to make some more?  It also mentions 
optimization (among several other things).  It recommends using a particular 
tool.  However, Inkscape has some optimization features as well.  You'll just 
have to sort through it and figure out what you need.

It mentions something about using the keyboard to guide the screenreader through 
the webpage.  So it sounds like you'll need some idea how screen readers work.

#2 - "Let's make it accessible" sounds like your pot of gold!  But I wouldn't 
skip #1.

You'll have to plow through it all yourself.  I didn't look past that point, but 
you probably should.

All best,
brynn


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jonathan Busby
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 9:37 AM
To: Inkscape User Community
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers


I replied but the mail server rejected the message because it had a zip 
attachment. Here's a link to the zip archive on my Mediafire account :

http://www.mediafire.com/file/u55y9fs15d4y13f/acessible-SVG-test.zip/file

Thanks and regards,

Jonathan


On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:27 AM Jonathan Busby <[email protected]> wrote:



On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:11 PM Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, you already have this text visible on

> the picture and able to be selected (how?).

The text in the accessibility modified file is visible, but it's not selectable.

>Once you can select it,
> copy it from the SVG and paste it into a window whose job it is to feed

> text into a text-to-speech program.

The original, "non-accessible" file, has selectable text, but only via a CTRL-A, 
a CTRL-C and a CTRL-V. But its text is quite ugly and garbled when pasted.

I've tested the original, "non-accessible" SVG file with JAWS and it reads the 
file pretty decently, but it doesn't even read *anything* from the "accessible" 
SVG file.

I'll attached the original SVG, the screen reader accessible SVG that I 
attempted to create and the "diff -Nau" between the two files.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Thanks and regards,

Jonathan










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