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Re: Ways to make graphs accessible

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 23, 2018 10:29AM

That's one thing you quicly learn in the world of digital
accessibility. Leonie is consistently brilliant. ;)

Thanks for the article



On 1/23/18, Bim Egan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks Léonie,
> That is absolutely brilliant!
>
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> On 23/01/2018 15:58, Vemaarapu Venkatesh wrote:
>> I am eagerly looking for guidance on how to make the graphs
>> accessible. Can some experts out here suggest me the reliable and best
>> approaches to make graphical representation of data accessible to
>> screen reader users and also of great help if some one redirects me to
> useful articles on this concept.
>
> SVG is one possibility. It scales without loss of quality, text content in
> SVG is accessible with Assistive Technologies (ATs), it's stylable with CSS,
> and you can use ARIA to make some basic improvements for screen reader
> users.
>
> I wrote about making SVG line graphs more accessible here:
> https://tink.uk/accessible-svg-line-graphs/
>
>
> Léonie.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Venkatesh
>> >> >> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >>
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