[Blindmath] creating an accessible review mode for SVG Draw 01

[Michael Whapples]

Yes it does sound a little like IVEO. In fact one could use a mouse instead 
of a touchpad to drive IVEO (the touchpad is simply a pointing device and a 
tap on it is a mouse click).

Michael whapples
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> If you open the svg file in Chrome and point to a shape with the mouse, a
> tooltip pops up with the name of the shape. I don't know if screen readers
> respond to such tool tips or not.
>
> Other than that, this sounds a lot like running IVEO Creator with a mouse
> instead of a touchpad. If you open an svg file in IVEO Creator and click 
> on
> the image with the mouse, it will speak the title of the drawing element
> that the mouse pointer is pointing to. That title is the title that was
> given to the shape when the drawing was created.
>
> Dick Baldwin
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that we can draw things, I guess it is time to turn our attention to
>> reviewing what we have drawn.  I like the stack of shapes idea however,
>> that
>> doesn't truly give me a representation of what my drawing is like.  I 
>> still
>> have to do a lot of work in my head.  To avoid some of this, I am 
>> wondering
>> if it is worth creating a mode where the SVG file would be broken into a
>> stack of shapes but the stack would not be rendered in a list box.
>>  Instead,
>> I would have the mouse and as I move the mouse over the drawing, the 
>> shape
>> under the mouse would be spoken. This would become very simple if done on 
>> a
>> laptop touchpad or netbooks touchpad.  For desktop users, we could 
>> probably
>> just use the mouse but I'm not sure how well this approach will work in
>> that
>> situation.
>>
>> Pranav
>>
>>
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