- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:17:31 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Gregg, This came up on the conference call today. Here's information on this topic from Mark Hakkinen on the UA list [1] (sent 24 November 1999): > pwWebSpeak allows synthesizer language changing for the page under these > conditions: > > 1. The LANG attribute is specified in the HTML element. > 2. The LANG attribute corresponds to one of the installed synthesizer > languages. > > Users can manually switch the "reading" synthesizer to one of the installed > languages, if no LANG attribute is present. > > Presently we don't switch on LANG attributes within a page (though we are > likely to add that). We do note significant time delays when switching > between some synthesizers (eg, some SAPI engines may exhibit a long load > time, particularly when using engines from different vendors). That has been > a concern of mine if we switch on arbitrary LANG attributes appearing in the > page as it could introduce unnatural reading flow. From Jim Thatcher (24 November 1999) [2]: > Home Page Reader does the same and plans the same. Hope this helps, - Ian [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0434.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0435.html -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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