- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:06:28 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
Hi, Best Practice 7 (Using the body tag) of 'Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content' [1] states that there are no UA applicability issues for this best practice. However, I recently discovered the following issue. On a test file where a language change from English to German is declared on the body element [2], the screenreader JAWS 8.0 behaves differently depending on the browser I use: with Internet Explorer 6, JAWS reads the test file as English instead of German, but with Firefox 2.0.0.9, JAWS reads it as German (as expected). So there may be a bug in Internet Explorer 6 that causes language changes on the body element to be ignored. Best regards, Christophe Strobbe [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/#ri20040429.094630704> [2] test file at <http://www.bentoweb.org/ts/XHTML1_TestSuite2/testfiles/sc3.1.1_l1_003.html>; metadata at <http://www.bentoweb.org/ts/XHTML1_TestSuite2/metadata/sc3.1.1_l1_003>. (This is part of the BenToWeb project, which develops suites of test cases for WCAG 2.0.) -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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