Re: Stories of web users, French version

Bonjour Stéphane,

On 3 Jul 2018, at 21:55, stephane.deschamps@orange.com wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I've just asked the French Twitter people for some feedback because 
> several brains are always better.
>     https://twitter.com/accessiblestef/status/1014231966428917760
>
> Meanwhile, here are the two concerns we may have:
>
> # Non-breaking spaces in French
>
> We have to prepend every vertical punctuation sign (":", ";", "?", 
> "!") with a non-breaking space, or ideally with a thin non-breaking 
> space. Samely, quotes in French are supposed to show like this: "Le 
> mot «_chien_» n'aboie pas." (I added underscores supposed to 
> represent non-breaking spaces).
>
> The good news is that Boris Schapira provides a library for just that 
> in Jekyll:
>     https://github.com/borisschapira/jekyll-microtypo/blob/master/lib/jekyll/microtypo.rb
>
> The bad news is that I have absolutely no idea how we can implement it 
> on the How People with Disabilities Use the Web section. Does this 
> ring any bell for you?

Unfortunately we can only use a small subset of plugins to ensure GitHub 
pages compatibility. The plugin above is not included. I would recommend 
to hard code thin breaking spaces in the text itself, either through the 
HTML entity or the UTF-8 character.

> # French lang attribute
>
> I added lang attributes as needed, but couldn't wrap the whole page 
> itself.
>
> I tried `<div lang="fr">` but it seemed to break the parser.
>     https://github.com/notabene/wai-people-use-web/commit/0c365912ed096dd741815d1f449bc02428c7bc29
>
> I also tried various forms of comments to no avail.
>     https://github.com/notabene/wai-people-use-web/commit/1f99bd781674b8279b1e43556df42e98461ae7e0
>
> Now I'm clueless. Any idea so that we can change the language to 
> French in the whole page (or in the whole `main` element at least)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any fix you can apply!

Sorry for the confusion. I have just added [language support] to the 
templates. I will send you a pull request that should add the language 
to the main element.

Best, Eric

[language 
support]:https://github.com/w3c/wai-website-theme/commit/71be7347e956268c81260bef9108f92ac2860b64

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> Stéphane Deschamps
> Référent accessibilité - Direction Digitale - Expérience et 
> Interface Utilisateur
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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)