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Bug 5568 - always provide a 'title' child element to the 'svg' element
Summary: always provide a 'title' child element to the 'svg' element
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SVG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Accessibility Support (show other bugs)
Version: SVG 1.2 Tiny
Hardware: Macintosh All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Test Suite
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: SVG Public List
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Reported: 2008-03-13 10:34 UTC by j.chetwynd
Modified: 2008-03-13 10:34 UTC (History)
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Description j.chetwynd 2008-03-13 10:34:44 UTC
SVGt 1.2 section 5.5 The 'desc' and 'title' elements

Please can the following statement:

"Authors should always provide a 'title' child element to the 'svg' element within a stand-alone SVG document."

be moved to the top of section 5.5**?

** the current first line "Each container element or graphics element in an SVG document may supply a 'desc' and may also supply a 'title' description." suggests that one need not read further.

the outcome being that of the ~7000 openclipart examples ~5 have title content.

additional evidence includes the facts that;

inkscape appears to provide no means to enter title content, and the maintainer bryce is not aware of any means.

none of the well known and used croczilla examples has a title, even though such a request has been made,
http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/


as you will be aware

"Providing a.. (title) ..is one of the primary ways authors can make their documents accessible to people with disabilities."
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/#Equivalent

this information is vital when trying to find or sort svg files:

http://peepo.getmyip.com/~JonathanChetwynd/db/search.php?search=shield