- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:53:01 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Thank you for your comments and suggestions ! Please review the updated prose: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-speech/#lists Regards, Daniel On 3 Jun 2011, at 01:40, fantasai wrote: > On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, Andrew Thompson wrote: >> >> Indeed you are correct and I have reading comprehension issues :) >> But in that case the spec makes no sense to me. If a >> document is written in Spanish but my user agent preferences happen >> to say I am primarily an English speaker would I really >> want 1 pronounced 'one' rather than 'uno' in the middle of an >> otherwise exclusively Spanish document? >> >> In most synthesizers switching the language implies switching to a >> different voice, which is jarring (think font substitution >> but much worse) and potentially very expensive in memory and time. >> >> Surely the spec should say either 'in the element's language' or >> 'with the synthesizer's current settings' (meaning withe the >> current voice and settings in effect for the list)? >> >> I take your point documents are often poorly marked up with lang >> attributes, but if a speech synthesizer has failed to >> determine the correct language for an element then generally >> speaking the entire output will be unintelligible anyway so >> counters would be the least of your problems. > > Yes, I agree the counter should be read in the element's language, > not the OS language. > > ~fantasai > Daniel Weck daniel.weck@gmail.com
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