- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:16:34 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
It should be remembered that there is not always a "screen reader" intermediary between the user agent and the text to speech software. Indeed, some user agents are designed from the start to provide speech output. I am not sure whether any of them supports the LANG attribute yet, but they will undoubtedly do so reasonably soon. The user agent group could introduce a priority 1 requirement to the effect that speech output systems must offer the user an option to override the language choice which is in effect. This would enable users to handle situations in which no language, or an incorrect language, is specified via the LANG attribute. Thus, I think there is a priority 1 issue here, but it belongs in the user agent guidelines. For our guidelines, the existing priority 2 requirement that the LANG attribute be specified where necessary, should remain.
Received on Monday, 1 February 1999 20:16:42 UTC