- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:55:48 -0500
- To: Andy Heath <a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I agree. I think this an important issue for functional versus technical accessibility. Without language information in markup, there is vertually no way a speech user knows when to switch languages. Especially where two or more languages are used on the same page. Which is common for web based instructional resources to teach languages. Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:38:41 +0100 >From: Andy Heath <a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk> >Subject: Re: Unicode and accessibility >To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > > > >> I still don’t consider language switching an accessibility issue (as I >> argued eons ago during WCAG 1.0 development) marking up language changes >> is the way to go. > >I'm not a language teacher but it seems to me that >for language teaching there must be contexts where >there are sentences with different phrases in multiple >languages where markup is essential to disambiguate. > >andy >-- >andy >_______________________________________________ >Andy Heath >Sheffield Hallam University >a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/ WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund
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