- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:27:05 -0400
- To: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
- Cc: public-personalization-tf <public-personalization-tf@w3.org>
Hi John, All: Trying to focus in on my particular concern, I've trimmed John's very helpful email down a bit ... John Foliot writes: > ... > Go ahead, try it (and you'll likely see that the form input for language > will remain blank, because currently I am unaware of a *browser* that > stores that data - if you use a password manager, it *MAY* have stored the > response value you wish to use). > This may be true, however it is equally true that the OS does store this kind of data, though it it isn't necessarily doing a very proper job of it Some examples--only some: Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/microsoft-windows-international-core-userlocale Apple https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nslocale Android: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/change-androids-language-locale-per-app-basis-0172900/ Linux: https://jdhao.github.io/2019/09/27/linux_locale_settings/ I would submit browsers do use this data, even if they don't expose it at a user level as John says. In point of fact this data is important to the operating environment as a whole, even though our W3C remit is scoped only for web. So, here's my problem: Do we really want to introduce yet another competing data collection point? Or is this possibly a job for Media Queries (along the lines of our APA demo last week)? Or, as has been raised in comments on our APA demo last week, shouldn't this data be revisited and revamped at the OS level? Note the comments in the cited Apple article about not supporting bilingual users well. I would submit no OS does a bang up job of that, and that this is part of our problem. Best, Janina -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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