Re: Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers

Jonathan Busby <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:04:20 -0500

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM Arlo Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:30 AM Jonathan Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I've been trying to make SVGs exported from Inkscape accessible to
>> screen readers for an article I'm editing on Wikipedia.
>
> Just making sure you know that Wikipedia thumbnails to PNG, so unless you are directing people to the file itself (which you can, Wikimedia Commons is for many purposes) semantic contents will not come through in an article. Of course, WP itself has accessibility guidelines...
>

Thanks for the heads up :) Fortunately, the SVGs created using
Inkscape which I've uploaded to Wikimedia are not in thumbnail form on
the articles pages where they appear, at least, I don't think they
are.

Regards,

Jonathan