I have had experience of working with a EU project called Mercator (a
group that promotes accessibility and inclusion of minority and regional
languages).
I know from various meetings with them, that the whole use a flag icon
method of determining a language is considered to be discriminatory
SHould the link stay in the some language of page or in the language
that gonna change?
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http://www.artideias.com
Hi,
i think that is better to put the links in its language (English,
Español and so on)
If i only speak Spanish and i'm in an English web page i will not know
what Change to
Gaspar,
on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 10:52 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
for me the only mean useful for this page it's teh 3 links
but i thing it's better take retire this page, dont't u thing the
same?
Yes, definitly!
My big question it's the in body i will tell what language or in the
You may find this article helpful:http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200604/indicating_language_choice_flags_text_both_neither/
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Carlos Rincon Sanchez
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To: Web standards group
Subject: Re: [WSG] LInks Multi-language
SHould
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:18 pm, Martin Heiden wrote:
Gaspar,
From a user perspective it would be more useful to describe the link
in the language of links destiny. If I were on your site and I
couldn't understand Portuguese, I would definitely prefer a link with
text in a language that I
On 6/30/06, Steve Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree - another option is to use small icons that are flags of the nationsassociated with the destiny languageBut (as per the link I posted above) languages are spoken in more than one country. The name of the language, in that language, is the
Steve Olive wrote:
I agree - another option is to use small icons that are flags of the nations
associated with the destiny language
Flags are not a good indicator for language, as certain countries can be
multi-lingual, and the same language can be spoken in a variety of
countries (e.g.
too tired to hunt for it...
... but have slaves to that for me ;)
Servez-vous:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/flagproblem.html
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200604/indicating_language_choice_flags_text_both_neither/
