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SVG Accessibility API Mappings
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Should concrete shape/object roles like `circle` have a more specific role description? #30

Open cookiecrook opened 11 months ago

cookiecrook commented 11 months ago

Should concrete shape/object roles like circle have a more specific role description?

Currently they all map to graphic-image, which would have it's role description spoken as "image" rather than a more specific (perhaps meaningful) shape name as the role description, like "circle" or "rectangle"… As an example, these shapes are sometimes meaningful for flowcharts, and that de facto shape usage would be lost if they were all called "image."

Note: the accessibility of the flowchart use case is mainly blocked by the fact the SVG Working Group never shipped Connectors, so maybe this is not a pressing matter.