- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:54:33 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 17:29 17/07/2008, Armand Turpel wrote: >Hi, >Interesting! It is difficult to handle the lang attribute for some >one like me who live in a multicultural environment, where a mix of >languages is omnipresent. I even set the lang attribute for single words. (...) I have always been very strict with regard to marking up language changes, but I have also seen websites by persons or organizations who promote accessibility where languages changes are not marked up. >No idea how screen readers handle this. Screen readers that support the languages used in a document (and that support language switching within a document) can switch to a speech synthesizer appropriate for a span of text when the language is correctly marked up. However, this switch causes a slight pause, and users find this annoying. >But my question is; should text writers, who are attentive to web >standards, care on how accessible technologies (jaws version >5,6,7,9,...) handle texts? As far as I know, users of text-to-speech software and braille conversion software have always been presented as the main beneficiaries of correct language markup, so yes, authors should care about how these types of software handle language changes. >Is it not the job of such technologies to make it readable for its >users in a proper way? My understanding is that this is what they try to do. Best regards, Christophe >Regards, >Armand -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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