Re: SVG labelling issue with ARIA

"Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:29:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.svg
Message-ID <2347995.CBlnfutlAQ@ap03>
Robert Longson: 
>The title element (
>https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#InterfaceSVGTitleElement) does not
>list SVGTests https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#InterfaceSVGTests as
>one of its interfaces and so systemLanguage cannot be used with it. So
>title not working with switch in any browser is correct in the sense that
>they are all following the SVG specification there.
>
>Robert.

The discussion in the past resulted in something slightly more complex - and
without a hint within the recommendation it is not obvious for authors and 
implementors to do it this way.
Example: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/OttomanEmpire1300-1923.svg

A simpler and realiable method would be pretty useful, but there was no 
interest in the past to care about multilingual documents (and text 
alternatives).

Olaf