- From: john_slatin <john_slatin@forum.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:49:32 -0600
- To: "'gv@trace.wisc.edu'" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
IBM's Home Page Reader 3.02 does automatic language-switching as well, assuming that the LANG attribute is present. John John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Technology & Learning University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station G9600 FAC 248C Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.ital.utexas.edu -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:06 am To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: FW: automatic language switching In the note below Chaals raises the topic of automatic language detection. I wonder if some things could be made easier for authors by having tools Someday this may be good enough that it would be unnecessary for authors to do it because standard clients could do it (and translate as necessary using network services. Or locally for that matter). Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- There is at least one example I know of for automatic language switching - the Technical University of Tampere http://www.tut.fi produced a voice-based email system that auto-detects languages and switches synthesiser accordingly. Having one that could read XML to the simplistic level of being able to spot the xml:lang attribute in an element would be good. cheers chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile charles@sidar.org Fundación SIDAR http://www.sidar.org
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