- From: gregory j. rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:26:14 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
aloha, adam & lisa! wouldn't providing an expansion for non-rendered/non-printed/missing vowels best be served by a system such as that provided by Ruby Annotation? Ruby background: http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-ruby Ruby PR draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-ruby-20010406/ i realize that in order to make a complete document truly accessible one would have to provide annotation for every word containing a vowel--which, in effect, mean that most, if not all of the content would have to be glossed--rather than discrete chunks of the text (which is how Ruby is used as a printing convention for asian languages), but since Ruby is an emerging technology, which stands a very good chance of being rather widely supported by a wide range of user agents/web-content delivery devices--due, in no small part, to the sheer numbers of cybernauts and e-businesses who will directly benefit from its implementation--its extention to semetic languages (and any other language which is commonly/standardly printed/written without explicit vowel markings), is worth investigating, i think... lisa, have you raised this issue with the internationalization and localization folks? http://www.w3.org/International/ how about the Protocols & Formats WG? personally, i'm surprised that this concern hasn't surfaced earlier, but i couldn't find anything pertaining to hebrew or arabic vowel-expansion via a cursory search of the internationalization activity's W3C web space, nor is it mentioned in the I18N (i still don't understand that abbreviation) activity statement, located at: http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html gregory.
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