Re: [rfc-i] Text in SVG diagrams

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2021, 05:26 Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8899.html appears to use SVG quite
> effectively.  The diagrams really help illustrate the concepts in the
> document.
>
> Lucas Pardue recently noted that appearances are not everything.  It is
> not possible (at least in browsers I have available to me) to search for
> text in these diagrams.  This is because every single character is placed
> separately as a distinct SVG element.
>
> You can see the effect of this if you try to select text in any of the
> figures (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8899.html#figure-4 is a good
> example).  I don't know what characters to be shuffled this way, but the
> effect is that text cannot be searched for or selected in any useful way.
>
> I'm certain that this is not malice on the part of the authors or RPC, but
> the effect is that these diagrams are far less accessible than they could
> be.  Is there something we might do to improve this situation?
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