RE: I18N review comments on UAAG 1.0

Apologies.  The numbering of my points went wrong at the end.

Please replace
 #7:
with
 #i18n-4:

Please replace
 #8
 Sec 4.2
With
 #i18n-5
 Checkpoint 4.2

Thanks.
RI

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Richard Ishida
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
> Sent: 24 September 2002 17:38
> To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org; w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
> Cc: Richard Ishida
> Subject: I18N review comments on UAAG 1.0
> 
> 
> Please find enclosed the last call comments from the 
> Internationalization WG on the User Agent Accessibility 
> Guidelines 1.0 Version reviewed was 21 August 2002
> 
> 
> #i18n-1: 
> Checkpoint 2.10, checkpoint provision 1
> The heading talks about 'language' whereas the checkpoint 
> provision talks about 'scripts (ie. Writing systems)'.  Both 
> the title and text should be changed to 'language or script', 
> to cover both the visual rendering case and the 
> text-to-speech (or -to-braille) case.
> 
> 
> #i18n-2: 
> Checkpoint 2.10, checkpoint provision 1
> Is it clear enough how one would know that text is in an 
> 'unsupported script' or language?  Whether or not something 
> can be rendered would presumably depend on the capabilities 
> of the application in a given modality, eg. font availability 
> in a visual modality (without necessarily a requirement to 
> understand the underlying semantics if this is a visual 
> illustration); recognisability of text (words) in a 
> text-to-speech modality (without necessarily a requirement to 
> be able to display the text).
> 
> Detection of an unsupported script or language would 
> presumably be significantly aided by recognition of markup 
> indicating a language, or recognition of a range of Unicode 
> code points (eg. the set of Latin characters used in Welsh or 
> African languages) that are known not to be supported. 
> Perhaps, therefore, it would be worthwhile to add another 
> requirement along the lines of: "Ensure recognition of any 
> cues provided in markup relating to a change of language or 
> script." Examples would include xml:lang in XHTML, :lang in 
> CSS, lang in HTML, etc.
> 
> Note that there is no markup at the moment in xml or html 
> that indicates a change of script, and there may never be.  
> The text 'or script' was included above to cover any 
> possibility of such a thing occurring in a future 
> implementation, given the assumption that the guidelines are 
> also aimed at people developing new technologies.
> 
> 
> #i18n-3: 
> Checkpoint 2.10, checkpoint provision 2
> It may be helpful for the user to append "because it is not 
> in a supported language or script (i.e. writing system)" to 
> the end of this sentence (ie. the UA should indicate the 
> reason that the text was lost) if one can assume that the 
> user agent knows that it is because the text is in an 
> unmanageable language or script.
> 
> #7:
> Checkpoint 4.1, Sufficient technique
> Suggest: "render text at 36 points" -> "render Latin text at 
> 36 points".  Reason: rendering Chinese or Arabic fonts at 36 
> points may not produce the same degree of clarity as 
> rendering Latin text at that size, and different settings may 
> be more appropriate.
> 
> #8:
> Sec 4.2
> Since global imposition of a Latin-only font could break text 
> in other scripts, perhaps this should be finessed to say that 
> it should be possible for the user to specify different user 
> preferred fonts by script group (much like eg. the common 
> browsers allow you to set default fonts for Unicode ranges).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Richard.
> 
> 
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> W3C
> 
> The W3C Internationalization Activity has restructured, and 
> has issued a call for participation.  
> See http://www.w3.org/International/about.html
> 
> tel: +44 1753 480 292
> http://www.w3.org/International/
>

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