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Re: In-Language translation for ARIA?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 6, 2014 12:26PM

ARIA attributes and roles should not be translated as those string values are not directly spoken by assistive technology but instead are used by the browser and translated to platform level accessibility APIs. The assistive technology should properly handle speaking different states when they are provided through ARIA.

Some ARIA values such as aria-valuetext and aria-label should be changed, but these are designed as spoken literal strings.

Jonathan