How should text-to-speech handle ruby annotations like furigana in Japanese or pinyin in Chinese so screen reader users get the intended experience?
We just published a new W3C draft note from the Internationalization Activity: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
This explores diverse reading strategies across writing systems and defines essential user needs.
Accessibility, by @bogdanlazar.com and @mgifford (@httparchive.org):
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/accessibility
#webalmanac #studies #research #metrics #accessibility #colors #contrast #zooming #scaling #internationalization #keyboardnavigation #skiplinks #forms #labels #placeholders #multimedia #images #aria #overlays #ai
Hype for the Future 85B: Unicode Escapes for Additional Languages
Introduction Upcoming video contents to YouTube shall include information on a number of distinct languages regarding Unicode compatibility, support, and font testing using the Linux terminal `xterm`. Python Unicode Escapes For the Spanish language, the following characters must be escaped using the Unicode escapes: ÁÉÍÑÓÚÜ For the Italian language, the following characters must be escaped using the Unicode escapes: ÀÈÉÌÒÙ For the French language, the following characters […]Hype for the Future 84C: Plan for YouTube Shorts
Preamble After a longer-than-expected hiatus, novaTopFlex shall return to YouTube Shorts with the following contents: Introduction The channel on YouTube will gain new information after a longer-than-expected hiatus, including, though not limited to, the contents as expressed in the following schedule: Schedule January 24, 2026 (Hype for the Future 085) 9:00 AM EST Localization and Internationalization: Icelandic Localization and Internationalization: Faroese Localization and […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/hype-for-the-future-84c-plan-for-youtube-shorts/
Does anyone have experience using the i18n node.js package? I could really use some help fixing this issue with incorrect language being detected:
https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/99
#node #NodeJS #i18n #internationalization #WebDev #WebDevHelp
#Business #Launches
ChatGPT Translate · Translate text, voice, or images into many languages https://ilo.im/169w16
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#Translation #Internationalization #AI #ChatGPT #Content #Website #Design #UxDesign #UiDesign WebDesign
TIL that in #JavaScript
you can say
new Date("January, 2 2026")
But you can't say
new Date("2 eneros 2026")
and there doesn't seem to be a way to make it parse anything other than English.
Because why would we need to care about anyone else's languages?! pfft.
🤦♀️😡🖕
Anglocentric fucking coders.
JavaScript's been around for how many DECADES now and no-one's bothered to teach the date parser ANY other language?!
Why #Markdown's emphasis syntax (**) fails outside of Western languages: A deep dive into #CommonMark's “delimiter run” flaws and their impact on #CJK users.
A must-read for anyone interested in #internationalization and the future of Markdown:
https://hackers.pub/@yurume/019b912a-cc3b-7e45-9227-d08f0d1eafe8
W3C Internationalization, i18n
World Wide Web Consortium
Frontend Dogma
novaTopFlex
Stefan Bohacek
Inautilo
masukomi
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 