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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Sep 23, 2019 9:48AM


Additional things that can break are reading order issues when right to left text is used and resize/reflow/contrast/spacing issues that can arise when different languages are used with different lengths for text. For example, text truncation may be more common in situations where the translation produces a longer string of text AND reflow, zoom, or text spacing is applied to the content. I agree that these things and the non-displayed accessibility attributes should really be part of translation testing but it's doubtful they are -- so they fall to accessibility testing.

Jonathan