- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:25:36 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 24/10/2025 16:10, Morrell, Eleonora A wrote: > I have been asked a question that I'm not 100% sure of the answer by one of my co-workers. We are translating a PDF into 12 different languages. Do we have to translate the Title property of the PDF? > In my opinion, we shouldn't have to translate the title. The user's browser language would translate the title. Am I incorrect? Any other opinions/thoughts from others who might have more expertise in this matter would greatly appreciate. I could only see the browser translating if there were some add-on that translated everything. The only translation I've observed is via cloud based proxies. In any case, I'd suggest that machine translation of titles is more difficult than that for body text, as they tend to be short and lacking in the context needed to resolve ambiguities. Although I think it is one of the things that designers never use in practice, the way that web browsers were supposed to handle multilingual audiences was by content negotiation, with different versions of the resource being served depending on the user's language preferences.
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