[svg-developers] Re: Re: tool tips --on mouse over

2004-12-05 Thread Jim Ley
"Jonathan Chetwynd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >in the meantime it is possible to write documents that work in both asv >and mozSVG. >including one that demonstrates tool tips! which may mean using >scripting in this instance. > >A large part of accessibility i

[svg-developers] Re: Re: tool tips --on mouse over

2004-12-05 Thread Jim Ley
"Jonathan Chetwynd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >perhaps you can enlighten me, what is the 'required information' that a >blind user or a user who prefers not to use a mouse will get from this >SMIL document? Whatever their access technology provides by way of ac

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Re: tool tips --on mouse over

2004-12-05 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Jim, that's preposterous, in terms of accessibility the SVG1.1 spec is broken. The chair and others have indicated that there is much work to be done. for instance ASV3.1 doesn't support standard keyboard accessibility any more than mozSVG, or any other UA afaik. Following standards only impr

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Re: tool tips --on mouse over

2004-12-05 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Jim and Schepers, well I agree it is possible, and even likely that future UA will provide at least an option to view metadata such as title and desc in a specific area of the screen such as perhaps the status bar. However in that case Doug's example is redundant. If you read the bug report w