As part of my activities on the W3C SVG Interest Group, I'm working on accessibility. As a simple starting point, I decided to focus on getting <title> and <desc> editable in Inkscape. It seems that sas already had submitted a patch to turn this feature on in the devel version of Inkscape. I've tried to fix a couple bugs with this implementation. One of them required a (for me) rather large patch that I think needs reviewing:
Bug 249445 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/249445
I also submitted a quickie tonight on Bug 254850 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/254850 if anyone can commit that.
Finally, I opened Bug 254857 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/254857 for which I need some UI guru to take a look at. I think it should be possible (and easy and intuitive!) for the user to add a <title> element to the root <svg> in Inkscape (as per SVG spec), but I'm not sure the best way to do this in the UI (perhaps replace File > Document Metadata > Title?). I'd almost want to suggest that this be a mandatory step before saving, but I don't know how user-friendly that would be.
Thanks, Jeff