Re: DIA documents and accessibility



On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 20:06 +0000, Steven M Pomarico via dia-list
wrote:
Hi Folks,

I am looking into trying to make documents that are accessible for
students (specifically blind students that use screen reading
software like JAWS).

Any idea if the document produced by DIA are compatible with screen
readers in general and JAWS specifically.

Whilst Dia as a whole *should* be okay I imagine the canvas (aka the
document) is a black hole

Dia can export to formats such as SVG and PDF which may fair better

I don't have much knowledge in this area but I wouldn't have thought
the kinda diagrams Dia makes could ever be particularly compatible with
blind users, perhaps you would be better offering a text based
description yourself?

For more info on JAWS here the Wiki link:  
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJAWS_(screen_reader&data=02%7C01%7C%7C492f32a861e14fa57ce808d717037e5c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637003176079281079&sdata=T9GHIZxFdb%2B4G7UI9ub%2FhU26EQwvS3FRs%2BypzjnT%2FAg%3D&reserved=0
)

Any advice is appreciated,
Steve


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