- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:26:23 -0500 (EST)
- To: <Julie.Howell@rnib.org.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 Julie.Howell@rnib.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone can anyone tell me... - do you have any experience of producing web sites in Asian languages? CMN: Yes. Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified and Traditional) and some languages written in Latin (ASCII) characters. This was for a major University which did a lot of work in Asia, including having several campuses in different Asian countries and extensive recruitment programs. - which screenreaders can read Asian languages? CMN: don't know. Sorry. - does the user need to download the character set or is this something the site provides? It depends on the user's system. Generally they will need to be able to handle the encoding used, which may mean that they need a font. (I don't suppose it really matters if you are using a screen reader that is not relying on the font itself). Often people who speak a different language will have realised that they can get a different language version of software (for example, it is easier to buy Japanese versions of software if you are in Japan, although as Max pointed out some of it might be different software). My experience was that this was not always true, and that it was very helpful to provide links to where people could get this stuff. Cheers Charles McCN Many thanks. Kind regards Julie Howell Campaigns Officer (Internet) Royal National Institute for the Blind --- 224 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5AA, UK julie.howell@rnib.org.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7391 2191 Fax. +44 (0)20 7391 2104 1.7 million people in the UK experience a serious sight problem or blindness. Poor Web design prevents many disabled people from getting the most from the Web. Support our campaign for better Web design! http://www.rnib.org.uk/digital Watch our video 'Websites That Work' on the Web at http://www.rnib.org.uk/digital/wtw.htm -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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