Re: [Rswg] SVG/ASCII art and accesibility (was: Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-rswg-rfc7996-issues-00.txt)

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Jean,

On 08-Oct-22 10:55, Jean Mahoney wrote:

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> [JM] Repeating here the comment that I've added to issue #20 (https://github.com/rfcseries-wg/new-topics/issues/20):
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> The RPC is updating its procedure for checking artwork to include reviewing the contents of the SVG <desc> and <title> elements and the <artwork alt=""/> attribute (when xml2rfc supports it. Issue opened: ietf-tools/xml2rfc#898 <https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/898>). If the artwork lacks an accessible description, during AUTH48 the editor will ask the authors to please provide text. We will also update the Online Portion of the Style Guide to recommend to authors that they provide descriptive text for artwork. rfc7322bis <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-flanagan-7322bis-07#section-3.7> already captures a recommendation regarding artwork accessibility.

That's excellent, of course. But I still lack

a) any drawing tool for SVG that supports <desc>;

b) any simple way of testing whether a <desc> or <artwork alt=""/> actually works with a screen reader in the html rendering;

c) a good example of a well annotated diagram in xml2rfcv3-conforming xml.

The third one is probably the most important of all.

Regards
     Brian