RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] [DISCUSS] What do translation and accessibility have in common?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Strobbe [mailto:christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be] 
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 06:33
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] [DISCUSS] What do translation and accessibility have in 
common?


At 20:38 2-10-2011, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I just saw this web page:
> <http://www.translationautomation.com/interoperability-is-important-for-the-translation-profession.html>
>
>
>
> It struck me that there is an overlap between translation and 
> accessibility.  I am not clear how to describe it.  I think it is 
> there. Does anything about the translation debate say something to 
> you with respect to accessibility arrangements and having them be 
> interoperable?


I think you will need to expand on this, because I don't see what the 
overlap would be.

<orcmid>
  I thought some of the commercial issues raised in that topic
  might have some counterparts in accessibility and certainly
  features on systems for integrating with the accessibility of
  individual programs, say.

  But I asked because it occurred to me that there might be some
  relationship, not that I had one in mind.  I don't work in 
  accessibility myself.  I recognize its importance and wondered
  about any relationship with translation tooling, if any.
</orcmid>

The basic accessibility requirements for an application are support 
of the platform's accessibility API, keyboard access and themeing 
support (for both high contrast modes and large fonts). Screen reader 
users may find it more important than other users to have all their 
software in the same language because I have not seen accessiblity 
APIs that tell you the language of an application's UI. (E.g. I have 
a Dutch version of Window-Eyes, which only pronounces its own UI (!) 
in Dutch if you set a synthesiser for Dutch in the program.) With the 
exception of this instance, I don't see any overlap (if that is the 
correct word) between accessibility and translation, let alone 
between accessibility and interoperability between computer-aided 
translation tools.

<orcmid>
  I think translation of accessibility information would be relevant.

  I think having multi-lingual information be accessible might
  also be important.

  I even thought there might be an overlap between having translation
  as a feature also be accessible.
</orcmid>


Best regards,

Christophe


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