- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:06:29 +0900
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net> wrote: > > > 7.1 Support accessibility features of HTML > > > LANG is priority 3. I would have thought it was 2 at least. > > > > As it is priority 2 in the PAGL as well, I will change it > > to 2 here if no one protests. > > OK, I object. What is the rationale for how it rates a 2? I object again. I strongly believe it SHOULD be implemented. > Seems to me LANG doesn't vary that often and if the user has to > tell the Braille software manually what language to expect, for > example, that it is not a real show-stopper. Have a look at Japanese press release of UA Guidelines. <http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/WAI-UAGL.html.ja> Here you'll see that LANG varies frequently. I sometimes hear Web pages with IBM's Home Page Reader (Japanese version), and have difficulties to understand its poor English pronunciation (its Japanese pronunciation is pretty good, though). I very much want future version of Home Page Reader (and other voice browsers) support better multilingual speech output, but it will be difficult without appropriate language information. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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