Re: identifying language changes

and they also optimize braille useage.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
To: "Christophe Strobbe" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: identifying language changes



In message <6.2.5.6.2.20080717162554.03f77770@esat.kuleuven.be>, 
Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> writes

>Several people provided arguments against marking up language changes 
>for each foreign name and word.
>
>One person said that frequent language changes were judged as annoying 
>or even a hindrance in many tests with blind users (what's wrong now, 
>why is there a pause?).

Surely there are more reasons for marking up language changes than just 
to cater for speech-synthesiser users? What about as an aid to 
spell-checking, search optimisation, and translation?

Who's top say that the next version of whichever user-agent pauses at 
such a change. won't be fixed?

-- 
Andy Mabbett