- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:45:30 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Ian, I think the minimum is that the speech should just say to the user that it has encountered a Japanese phrase. A second level of access would allow the user to get the numerical information of the Japanese characters. Jon At 11:24 AM 5/9/00 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: >Jon Gunderson wrote: > > > > Ian, > > My initial suggestions is that the UA could render "Japanese Phrase" XXXX > > "end Japanese Phrase", where XXX is some characters, or if Japanese is > > unsupported XXXX is nothing and the "end Japanese phrase" would probably > > not be needed. I am assuming the user agent is doing this because it > > cannot render the Japanese. > >I apologize, I didn't make my question clear. This is about synthesized >speech, not graphical rendering. > > - Ian > > > > > At 07:58 PM 5/6/00 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >Eric Hansen has asked for a clarification of one of the paragraphs > > >of the Techniques document [1] under checkpoint 2.7 (natural > > >language switching): > > > > > ><BLOCKQUOTE> > > >Switching natural languages for blocks of content may be more helpful > > >than > > >switching for short phrases. In some language combinations (e.g., > > >Japanese being the primary and English being the secondary or quoted > > >language), short foreign language phrases are often well-integrated in > > >the > > >primary language. Dynamic switching for these short phrases may make > > >the content sound unnatural and possibly harder to understand. > > ></BLOCKQUOTE> > > > > > >Eric asks what the UA should do in this case... > > > > > >I thought that this came from the I18N review of the document at > > >last call, but I cannot find evidence to that effect. Can someone > > >remember where this came from? I haven't been able to track down > > >who sent this technique. > > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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