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Check which languages a screen reader can identify by name #53

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mitchellevan opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 1 comment
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Check which languages a screen reader can identify by name #53

mitchellevan opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 1 comment
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mitchellevan commented Jan 7, 2025

Can screen readers even identify the name of a language? This can be important, so a user either knows to avoid the language (when they know they don't know it), or knows the name of the language so they can go find a capable synthesizer.

How to test:

  • Make one big page with ~100 lines of lang="xxx", one for each language in my large sample.
  • Maybe it's enough for each line to contain some digits.
  • Or if necessary, I could try generating language endonyms from JavaScript Intl methods.
@mitchellevan mitchellevan changed the title Check which languages the screen reader can identify by name Check which languages a screen reader can identify by name Jan 7, 2025
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I started the test page and got some initial results. Digits seem enough for this narrow technical test, but I need a spreadsheet both for entering results and for keeping track of which language is which.

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