- From: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:35:16 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
The original suggestion (posted January 5, 2001) was to add a paragraph to the scenario entitled: "Classroom student with dyslexia" http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/Overview.html#classroomstudent This addition would bring mention of the checkpoint on changes in natural language into the example. This would be extremely useful for officially multilingual countries like Canada. I haven't given much thought to a seamless integration, but the following might fit in as the third, fourth or fifth paragraph: [begin addition] As she was growing up, her family had postings in several countries and she has picked up a working knowledge of several languages. Because changes in natural language have been identified in the page markup, her multilingual screen reader automatically switches vocabulary and pronunciation dictionaries, significantly improving her understanding of the pages being read. As well, for languages she does not understand, the same markup permits faster and more efficient automatic language translation. [end addition] I grant that this would make for a long scenario: most others are three or four paragraphs. However, the "Teenager with deaf-blindness, seeking entertainment" scenario is five paragraphs. Rather than get hung up on length, I suggest we concentrate on completeness. Regards, Chuck Letourneau
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