Re: I18N-ISSUE-384: Usefulness of language annotations จเ [wcag]

> 1) Do user agents, including assistive technology, use this
> information in a way that is *actually* relevant and meaningful to the
> user?

CSS is moving towards to rely on @lang to determine language-specific =
typographic characteristics more than before. One example is in CSS =
Fonts[1]. Also, CSS Text[2] relies on @lang.

> 2) Isn=92t, or shouldn=92t, language determination primarily be made a
> user agent, and not a developer responsibility?

I don=92t understand this question. Does the =93developer=94 here mean =
authors? If so, CSS WG thinks it=92s author=92s responsibility.

> 3) Does it matter at all?

Yes, there are many cases where correct typography cannot be achieved =
without the content language, and @lang is the only tool we have today =
for authors to specify that.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#language-specific-support

[2] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/


/koji

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