- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:25:20 +1000 (AEST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
In anticipation of user agent support for the LANG attribute, in recognition of the language-dependent nature of text to speech and braille conversion processes, and taking into account the difficulties raised by multilingual documents, I propose that no change be made to the priority of this checkpoint. If it were only a priority 3 requirement today, then it would be rarely implemented, even in multilingual documents. Then, when user agents start supporting the LANG attribute, it will not be of benefit due to the absence of this important linguistic distinction in marked up documents. Therefore, a priority 2 rating should be retained in respect of multilingual material. Also, this requirement needs to be considered in relation to the WAI user agent guidelines, which ought to recommend implementation of the LANG attribute by user agents and assistive technologies.
Received on Monday, 26 April 1999 19:25:27 UTC