Re: identifying language changes

Hi Charles,

At 18:31 17/07/2008, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0200, Christophe Strobbe
><christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>
>...
>>Several people provided arguments against marking up language changes
>>for each foreign name and word.
>
>If I recall correctly, the compelling arguments at the time were about
>braille requirements. I presume, however, that automatic language
>recognition can be applied about as successfully to braille as to voice -
>I wonder if anyone has any practical experience.

Thanks for these references.
I have always been mystified about why identifying language changes had
priority 1 (checkpoint 4.1) but identifying the primary human
language of a document had only priority 3 (checkpoint 4.3).


>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999JanMar/0182.html is a
>thread about it.
>
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0091.html
>followed by
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0105.html and
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0128.html is the
>discussion in response to a Propose Recomendation comment (the process at
>W3C was somewhat simpler back then).
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990217/#gl-abbreviated-and-foreign 
>
>is where there was a different checkpoint.
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/meetings/19990225.html#lang records the meeting
>that decided to make this a P1 requirement. It was added sometime after
>the pulication of http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0414
>
>... so if you're a history buff, you might enjoy searching for more
>information about what we thought we knew back then...


Best regards,

Christophe


>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
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