Re: Thoughts on the new Draft of WCAG 2.0

Well,

it should be en-US actually. And I don't know, but since I know that there
are speech synthesisers out there that have english and american voices, I
would guess that the support is as for other language switching -
unfortunately very low. For those who don't think this is a problem, try
working with a french system that comes across some english content...

Charles

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Kynn Bartlett wrote:

  At 12:07 AM +0000 11/23/00, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
  >5. Change:-
  >      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  >      [...]<body xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  >to the following:-
  >      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  >           xml:lang="US-en" lang="US-en">
  >      [...]<body>

  How well is "US-en" vs "en" supported in the assistive technology?
  (Anyone?)

  >6. The source of {3.4} should be changed from
  >      [...]in XHTML use the Hn elements[...]
  >to
  >      [...]in XHTML use the h<var title="1 to 6">n</var> elements[...]
  >I almost missed that one! (Once again I'm being a bit picky, but it would be
  >ironic if the Accessibility Guidlines document didn't follow its own
  >content! I really wished that the XHTML 1.0 spec. wasn't valid XHTML...)

  I'm not convinced that this replacement is valid.  A better formulation
  would be to state:  "Use the H1 to H6 elements".


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