Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers
I originally posted this question to the Inkscape Community forums here : https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1705.0 .
I've been trying to make SVGs exported from Inkscape accessible to screen readers for an article I'm editing on Wikipedia. I've been using the following article as a reference but I'm still not sure if what I'm doing is correct : https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/ .
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 12:30:11 -0500 Jonathan Busby <jonathanbusby@...155...> wrote:
I originally posted this question to the Inkscape Community forums here : https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1705.0 .
I've been trying to make SVGs exported from Inkscape accessible to screen readers for an article I'm editing on Wikipedia. I've been using the following article as a reference but I'm still not sure if what I'm doing is correct : https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/ .
If I understand you correctly, you already have this text visible on the picture and able to be selected (how?). 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.
SteveT
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Sorry for the double post, but I accidentally had MIME enabled in the last message, so I'm re-posting it plaintext only.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:11 PM Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> 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've provided the original SVG, the screen reader accessible SVG that I attempted to create and the "diff -Nau" between the two files in a zip archive, to which I've linked on my Mediafire account :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u55y9fs15d4y13f/acessible-SVG-test.zip/file
Any help would be appreciated.
SteveT
Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
Thanks and regards,
Jonathan
*JAWS can be found here ( long URL ) :
https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/?utm_term=jaws%20sc...
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