CORE-AAM: Require ariaNotify announcements to be translated when the page is auto-translated - #2860
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…page is auto-translated Add a Translation step to the ariaNotify algorithm mapping table requiring user agents to apply the browser's machine translation to the announcement before raising the platform accessibility notification, and to defer that notification until translation completes. Closes w3c/core-aam#265
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This seems fine to me except for an editorial question I have about when we update the changelog! I'll approve once I understand that.
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Summary
Adds a new Translation step to the
ariaNotifyalgorithm mapping table in Core-AAM.When the user agent presents a document in a machine-translated rendering (e.g. via a built-in "Translate this page" feature), the announcement passed to
ariaNotifyis currently conveyed to assistive technologies in the original content language rather than the language the user sees. This change adds an RFC-2119 requirement that the UA MUST apply the same translation to the announcement before performing the platform-specific notification steps, and a note that the platform notification should not be triggered until translation completes (so the original and translated strings aren't spoken in sequence).Details
Translationrow in theariaNotifyalgorithm mapping table, placed after the existingLanguagerow and before the platform-specific rows.Verified in smhigley's test case that
ariaNotifystrings are not currently auto-translated by browsers.Closes w3c/core-aam#265
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