- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:13:42 +0800
- To: Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 21/04/2017 18:42, Tobias Bengfort wrote: > back in september 2015 I sent a message to this list asking about > opinions on a "simple" language variant subtag. This would allow to > provide a "version that does not require reading ability more advanced > than the lower secondary education level" (WCAG20 3.1.5) like this: > > <link href="..." hreflang="en-simple" rel="alternate" /> > > In the meantime, this variant subtag has actually been registered[1] > (not by me). > > Should the technique described above be included in the "How to Meet > WCAG 2.0" document? Or should we wait for ATs to actually support this? > If so, how can we push support in ATs? > Can you suggest which AT should be able to utilise this information and in what way? As a piece of metadata that search engines could use to return results with simplified content, I think there is a good use case, but I'm not sure what screen reader, screen magnifier, or speech recognition support might look like. Léonie -- @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem > > [1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.languages/11065 >
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