Re: Hawaiian Diacritics

Ryan,
The most important thing to remember in mixed language web sites is that
all texts for screen readers (including image alt texts, texts hidden for
screen readers only, ARIA labels, title tooltip attributes, <title>, and
also things like input error messages, and popup alert messages), should
all be in the same language that the page or piece of content containing
them uses.

That might seem obvious, but I have audited many websites and pages in
various languages from French to Chinese, that were either created by an
English speaking developer, or have been translated from an English web
page. And I don't think I can recall ever seeing a website that recognised
this obvious and elementary fact. The English-speaking developer always
writes these texts in English, completely oblivious to the fact that if the
page is in another language, then maybe 75% of blind people listening to
the page in their screen readers won't understand English!