- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:50:21 +0000
- To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
[SVG2](https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#DescriptionDefinitions) clarifies that user agents should choose the **sibling `<title>`** (and likewise `<desc>`) element that best fits the user’s linguistic preference by respecting their `lang` (or generic `xml:lang`) attributes, by which they _must_ differ. That means, `<switch>` and `systemLanguage` are unnecessary there, they are the correct tool for _visible_ elements. In conclusion, there is no need to change the specification. Alas, I’m not sure whether browsers handle this correctly or whether they treat images labeled as conforming to SVG 1.x differently in this regard (which I highly doubt in general). -- GitHub Notification of comment by Crissov Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/1050#issuecomment-3742598575 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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