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Agreed. This is nice work. Recently dropped in Chart.js for an internal rails application to throw up some charts for users to get a better view of their data on their dashboard and they were blown away. A few simple bar charts and graphs can do wonders.

Good point about the line chart. There are a few other ways I considered as well: using a clip-path to make an area chart, or using borders of rotated divs for each segment. I had not seen it done with background gradients the way I did it, and honestly I wanted to try it that way and got caught up in it. I may revisit the other methods and see if I can make something simpler.

I've never tried to read a SVG with a screen reader, do they attempt to read SVG's?

I would assume it would just treat it as an image.

Screen readers read SVG's.

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