- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:51:37 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
DOCUMENT IN REVIEW: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990210/ Hello, Charles McCathieNevile has proposed [1] the the UA guidelines address support for natural language as an accessibility issue. This proposal is lent support by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [2], which contains two natural language-related checkpoints - 6.1 and 6.2. Checkpoint 6.1 is a Priority 1 that reads: 6.1 Clearly identify changes in the (natural) language of a document's text. What form would UA checkpoints for natural language support take? 1) One area seems to be related to descriptions and captions of audio and video, but this will be covered in Guideline 5. by two proposed checkpoints (one to choose from among available captions and descriptions for video, one for audio). These checkpoints were added by consensus at the 17 Feb teleconf. 2) Another checkpoint might mirror that of the Web Content Guidelines: Notify the user when markup indicates a change in natural language. In HTML, this is done with "lang", in XML, I believe it's "xml:lang". This feature could be turned on or off. Other areas of concern for natural language? - Ian [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JanMar/0237.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JanMar/0206.html -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) Tel/Fax: (212) 684-1814 http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
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