RE: How Does Guideline 3.1.1 Affect Accessibility?

and folks who are multi lingual how would they know which language they 
are using , and/or if more than one language is used in a single document.

Bob


On Mon, 13 May 2013, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 06:53:40 -0700
> From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> To: "Homme, James" <james.homme@highmark.com>,
>     "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Subject: RE: How Does  Guideline 3.1.1 Affect Accessibility?
> Resent-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:16 +0000
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> If you have a page that contains English text, but the page is marked as lang="fr", then a tool might select a speech synthesizer that is appropriate for French to read the text.  This would result in English being read with a French accent and syntactic expectiations, and punctuation like parentheses being voiced with French words.    The result can be pretty awful.
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> Thanks,
> AWK
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> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
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> From: Homme, James [mailto:james.homme@highmark.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 9:28 AM
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: How Does Guideline 3.1.1 Affect Accessibility?
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> Hi,
> Guideline 3.1.1: The default human language of each Web page can be programmatically determined.                                                                    (Level A).
>
> Since this is level (a), and I'm an English-only speaker, I'm asking this question. If we have pages in another language, I'm guessing that someone who uses speech would have difficulty using those pages. Is that correct? Or are there also other accessibility considerations? Thanks for your enlightenment.
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> Jim
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