[blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good evening,

The problem is that a screen-reader doesn't know which parts of a document are in which language.  The exception to this are documents structured using technologies like html.  In html it is possible to explicitly declare the language of a part of the document.

<p lang="en>Some text in english</p>
<p> lang="fr">some text in french</p>
<p lang="es">Some text in spanish</p>

It really isn't the fault of assistive technology if it cannot automatically detect the language of a document when the language is not explicitly declared.


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On 2011-06-23, at 5:38 PM, Susan Kelly wrote:

> Some day (smile)!  Out here, we all grew up speaking and typing
> Spanglish, regardless of family background - guess that's why I want to
> hear the same from my computer.  But I will try to see if I can toggle
> back and forth on what I currently have WinZoom) and will be getting
> (JAWS) at some point.  I need Spanish (only, no bi-lingual) mostly for
> client letters, but it is a bit disturbing to hear the horrendous
> mispronunciations of names and places in pleadings that are other-wise
> in English.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Mark BurningHawk
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:32 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?
> 
> I believe that, right now with Snow Leopard and certainly with Lion, you
> can get VoiceOver in Spanish, English and a few other languages.  Having
> both a Spanish and English version running at the same time might be
> different, but you should be able to switch languages.
> 
> Mark BurningHawk
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> Namaste!
> 
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