Being unhappy with accessible SVGs: text elements
This started out last fall and is mostly a quick observation on screenreader behaviors and turned into some meandering thoughts about "linearizable" SVGs.
…This started out last fall and is mostly a quick observation on screenreader behaviors and turned into some meandering thoughts about "linearizable" SVGs.
…Links with complex content are a long standing accessibility challenge, essentially ever since HTML opened up the a tag to contain virtually anything else. Equation layout is not accessible and there is no single ARIA pattern that will help you make it so. So you need to adjust your approach as the situation requires - and, above all, as your users require.
For the past, uhm, decade? (wut?) I've been helping the AMS to build its tooling for TeX to HTML conversion. The first two parts were made open-source in 2022 (texml) and 2023 (texml-to-html). And yet, I've never written about them once. Let's change that.
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