I was advised by Maren Hachmann that I should continue my thread on the new Inkscape Users mailing list. The full archived thread can be found here : https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-user/thread/CAJc06ShUYMU... . Here are my last two posts :
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 10:01 PM brynn brynn@frii.com wrote:
Too bad that JAWS program doesn't have a free version. Have you found any free screen readers? If there is, I wouldn't mind diving into this, code and all.
Sorry for the belated reply. I found "NVDA" : https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ . It's free to use, but not open source and it only runs on Windows. It's better than nothing though :)
Regards,
Jonathan
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM Arlo Barnes arlo.barnes@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:30 AM Jonathan Busby jonathanbusby@gmail.com =
wrote:
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
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Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Jonathan