- From: nir dagan <dagan@upf.es>
- Date: Wed Jun 17 13:02:17 1998
- To: jongund@staff.uiuc.edu
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> > Is there a disability access issue related to the language issue, or is it > more general internationalization issue? > Jon > The disability access issue is that if a document in English has a sentence in Spanish, the sentence in Spanish should be rendered in Spanish and not in English. For User agents: For example a speaking browser that can read both English and Spanish should interpret the lang attribute and read the text correctly. For authors: authors should specify the language of the Spanish phrase in the above example using the lang attribute to allow correct rendering. I would say that it is an accessibility issue, since it seems more important in speech medium than in visual medium. Paradoxically, there have been many more discussions about this in the stylesheet mailing list concerning how quotation marks are presented visually in different languages. (as if a document is unreadable if the quotation marks are not the correct ones). Regards, Nir Dagan. http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/
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