- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:34:06 +0100
- To: "'WAI GL (E-mail)'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: "GEO" <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
Dear WCAG Techs folks, Wrt to the following WCAG editorial note: "Editorial Note: Note the HTTP headers is not an HTML technique. But we should have some way of speaking to the effects of HTTP headers and the preference with respect to the lang attribute." [http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#lang-att_primary] Please see the recent publication from the I18N GEO group on this subject at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-http-and-lang We make the case that one should use language attributes to indicate the language of content for processing purposes, eg. recognition by screen readers, and that http headers and/or Content-Language meta statements should be used to give more general meta-data about the document and its intended audience. In other words, they should be used for different purposes, and language attribute(s) on the html tag are best recommended at this point in your document. Note, also, that xml:lang needs a mention here. See our draft at http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html#ri20040429.0929 28424 RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C
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