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From: Julius Charles Serrano
Date: Apr 18, 2012 7:57PM

Hi everyone.

My goal in this message is to ask for your advice regarding the process
of evaluating websites containing languages other than English.

Has anyone experienced evaluating a website containing a language you're
not familiar with? How did you go about doing it?

I know that we can still check the accessibility of certain elements
(e.g. page titles, headings, color contrast, links for bypassing
content) of websites containing a language we're not familiar with.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think that these websites can be
best evaluated by accessibility specialists who speak the language
contained in the site?

Thank you.

Julius


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Julius Charles Serrano
Accessibility Specialist
Catalyst IT Ltd
http://www.catalyst.net.nz
Mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Phone: +64 (4) 803-2436