- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 22:25:08 +0545
- To: "W3C Public Comments WCAG 2.0" <public-comments-wcag20@w3.org>
Following “HTML and Specifying Language” [1] and “Usefulness of language annotations” [2] I propose to review guidelines that mandate marking up changes in language for appropriateness (like H58 [3]). The primary arguments for this proposal are that 1) determining language is per definitionem not an accessibility problem, and that 2) requiring authors to mark up all changes in language is a costly and unrealistic requirement, and one that may be better and more efficiently done by software at that. My interest in pursuing a WCAG conversation has been killed; although a bit scattered you find materials clarifying and elaborating the proposal in [1] (also review the comments) and [2]. [1] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20140825/html-and-language/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2014JulSep/thread.html#msg136 [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H58.html -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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