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- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:50:20 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-384: Usefulness of language annotations ⓣ [wcag] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/384 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: wcag Thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2014JulSep/0136.html Raised by: Jens O. Meiert I like to break into an old topic for which I believe the wrong ideas float around, but against which I’m not yet ready to push on other channels. Hence I want to fish for arguments here: How useful are language annotations via @lang? In particular: 1) Do user agents, including assistive technology, use this information in a way that is *actually* relevant and meaningful to the user? 2) Isn’t, or shouldn’t, language determination primarily be made a user agent, and not a developer responsibility? 3) Does it matter at all? I’m presenting this here (and perhaps on one or two more lists) to fish for arguments I may be missing. I’ve set my mind on this a while back [1]—and would answer 1) not usefully implemented, 2) tool responsibility, 3) probably not—but wonder if there is something that strongly disputes my view. Otherwise we can maybe clear up a mythical argument and requirement that developers need to mark up languages. Cheers, Jens. [1] https://plus.google.com/+JensOMeiert/posts/PfasbPRMuX8 -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ ⚐ http://coderesponsibly.org/
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