[oats-sig] SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language Based and Semantic Information

SVG authoring is definitely a head bender....

I'll have a nosy at chalk etc as i'm keen to get working on this side of
things. As i said earlier i'm involved in the bliss now and we're trying to
get them to go do a easily accessible freely available download set of
symbols. I'm using the bliss to do ccf stuff [3] and i've wrote a simple app
that batch converts all the bliss png into svg - this does not just embed
the image as would happen if you use adobe, the only problem with it at them
moment is the results are slightly more artistic than bci would approve
of... i'll try to digg out some examples. I use an oss library [1] to do the
work. Widget are also doing a similar exercise for bliss (they've used
source from [2]) we're trying to see the results and confrim what is going
to happen with the results interms of open source.

[1] http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.blackdirt.com/graphics/svg/
[3] http://dewey.computing.dundee.ac.uk/andy/?q=node/46

On 07/09/2007, "~:'' ありがとうございました。" <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> authoring is a complex subject...
> Why are there no easy to use authoring tools?
> There W3C specifications are a significant hurdle, as are the
> implementations:
>
> did you read or listen to my recent talk to CETIS Accessibility SIG?
> "Putting the User at the heart of the W3C process"
> http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Putting_the_User_at_the_Heart_of_the_W3C_Process
>
> I conceived and planned the authoring tool "Chalk"
> http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2/authoringTool.html
>
> Everything on peepo is hand-coded
> I'm currently developing a new Web 1.9999 portal ie with live SVG
> graphics for news, weather etc.
> However this has been voluntary since 1994.....
>
> best wishes
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
>
> Publishers that might be interested in such projects include:
>
> widgit symbols are authored in SVG possibly using Adobe Illustrator.
> However they are distributed in other formats, the Met office also
> uses this process for copyright reasons.
> http://www.widgit.com/products/inprint/index.htm
>
> also Clicker:
> http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/clicker/
>
> inkscape is a complicated tool that produces verbose code
> I have filed enhancement requests without result as yet ~:"
>
> it's essential the code is simple and easy to read, and thus edit.
> though sometimes I do lose sight of this for particular reasons.
>
>
>
>
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