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RE: alt text in 2 languages?

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Apr 27, 2004 5:48AM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jukka K. Korpela


> FrontPage, for example, seems to insert a meta tag with
> http-equiv="Content-Language" according to its own language settings.



I ran your suggested test using FrontPage's <meta> language settings and set
the default language to French. I then typed a French paragraph, then I
typed an English paragraph with <p lang="en"> and the first paragraph was
read in French (the default setting) and the second paragraph was read in
English.


So, JAWS 5.0 does support language switching whether using the W3C's <html
lang=""> or FrontPage's <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr">.
We should have anticipated this given that Microsoft's products are so
prevalent and it makes sense that Freedom Scientific would support all MS
products.


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Julian Rickards
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Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
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