RE: REF 3.1 TAKE 2 - Add specificity to required checkpoint.

Thanks for clarifying, Gregg.  But now I have another concern:
 
Does this mean that a French phrase like "je ne sais quoi" need not be
tagged if it occurs within an English sentence? When it's not tagged
with the lang attribute, JAWS pronounces the phrase like this: Gee knee
sayze kwoy.  It sounds quite different if it's marked up!
 
Here's an example sentence:
There's a certain je ne sais quoi about her, isn't there?
 
If you saw this in a print novel, the phrase would probably be in
italics, the convention in English usage for visually marking
non-English words and phrases.  An English speaker with good knowledge
of French *might* recognize "Gee knees sayze kwoy" as JAWS' attempt to
say "je ne sais quoi," but a non-French speaker wouldn't have a clue.
 
John
 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@wiscmail.wisc.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:22 pm
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: REF 3.1 TAKE 2 - Add specificity to required checkpoint.



It has come to my attention that my note is ambiguous.  I have changed
it therefore to fix the impression that foreign words are not allowed.
It was meant to say that they must be marked if they are not in the
dictionary. 


 REF - 3.1     Add specificity to required checkpoint.


 

 

Suggest that we add the following to the end of the first success
criteria.  

 

"Foreign words or phrases that are found in standard unabridged
dictionaries for the natural language of the content do not need to be
marked.  (For a list of common examples of exceptions for different
languages, see the W3C-WAI foreign word exception examples listing at
[insert URL].)"

 

Note: these lists do not currently exist - but could be easily generated
as examples so people would know what we mean.