- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:32:14 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <s.livingstone@btinternet.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Steven, there are topics that come up on this list from time to time... for example, in hebrew it is possible to leave out vowels in writing, which can cause problems for people who already have problems reading. In spanish there was a common screen reader called tiflowin that froze if there were animations on a page. In many languages software that is available in english is not available, or only available in ollder versions. I don't know if it is still the case, but very recently there were countries where people who were blind used DOS and a DOS-based screenreader, in Europe. I have never heard anything about accessibility on this list for African languages. As far as I know Opera is the only browser available in Breton, Welsjh, Irish and Scots Gaelic. The only resource I can recall off-hand is SID@R - a spanish group working on accessibility, whose website (in Spanish) is at http://www.sidar.org - if you find others I would be interested to know. Cheers Charles McCN On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 s.livingstone@btinternet.com wrote: Hi all. Can someone give me direction to some information on Accessibility for International users? By International, i mean with respect to language, locale and any other issues and how they affect the usability of web content and web applications. Thanks a lot, Steven. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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