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Re: Language of parts for user generated content

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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 28, 2021 2:29AM

Google Translate identifies languages reasonably accurately, so I was wondering if such a language recognition service was available as an API. A quick search turned up https://detectlanguage.com/. I don't know anything about this service other than it appears to do what you want.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Language of parts for user generated content

Is there a way to prompt the user for language or use system language?

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> On Oct 27, 2021, at 8:34 PM, Ajay Sharma < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have a portal where anyone can share any content much like Facebook posts or Twitter tweets.
> And these posts could be in any language depending on the preference of the users.
> So what could be the best way to handle the language of part success criteria in this situation, since it is not possible to predict in what language the user is going to create the content.
> Any insights would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ajai
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
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