- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:41:41 +0000
- To: Marjolein Katsma <hgnje001@sneakemail.com>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Quoting Marjolein Katsma <hgnje001@sneakemail.com>: > >* Users who don't know how to change their preference AND for whom the > >default is suboptimal AND who fail to noticed the obvious option can > >almost certainly cope with the default language anyway. > >- Slight negative > > Don't agree - your "almost certainly" assumes an amount of fluency in the > default language that is very often not present. > Where I live, that is not a small minority. If you have no fluency in the default language then everything except the link to a lanugage you can read will be gibberish to you. If there is one comprehensible peice of text on a page then it will stand out from the rest. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
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