[Irl-dean] Identifying a language change in an image's alternate text

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Alan,

Actually, I am a little unsure about the given example. While this is an 
interesting use case, what is the desired outcome? Notifying the user in 
the change of language could probably be achieved by adding lang="ga" to 
inline text that is contained within the alt attribute of the image 
element. I don't know if this would still be considered conforming in HTML.

However, and this is the bigger issue, would this be supported by User 
Agents such as screen readers or text only browsers? Would anyone notice 
the change? This is an important issue for internationalization and I 
would guess that UA support is pretty poor when usage of attributes like 
lang stray from how they would /normally/ be used (inline) etc.

Cheers

Josh







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