[LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not accessible

[Tom Koltai]

The Arabic and Chinese are possibly graphic based because not all
computers have all language libraries loaded.
In this manner, those persons that do not have the relevant language
loaded can still view the foreign pictograph character based language.

Until we all use Chrome (automatically translating) or all computers
have all language character sets installed (a bit wasteful) I'm afraid
compliance with WAG 2.0 although desirable may be a little bit difficult
to ubiquitously logistically achieve.

However, I was impressed with the speed of response from Kerry... 

21 minutes...

Our Government does care and does respond to input from it's citizens.

Well done Canberra. 

So, on that basis... We don't want the filter, don't need ACTA and do
need the NBN... Thanks in advance...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Marghanita da Cruz
> Sent: Monday, 7 March 2011 9:48 AM
> To: Webb, KerryA
> Cc: Link list
> Subject: Re: [LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is 
> not accessible
> 
> 
> The ALT Tags on the foreign language images are in english!
> The webpage/menus/links are only in english.
> 
> I haven't ascertained - whether the PDFs are indexed in
> Google and therefore discoverable in other languages.
> Perhaps someone who can speak one of these other languages
> can check....
> 
> I tried to cut the text out of the (Arabic) PDF to paste
> into google translate - but alas could not!
> 
> Seems fail fail fail on all levels.
> 
> Marghanita
> 
> Webb, KerryA wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link- 
> >> bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Marghanita da Cruz
> >> Sent: Monday, 7 March 2011 9:27 AM
> >> To: Link list
> >> Subject: [LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not 
> >> accessible
> >>
> >> Multilingual information at this page appears not to be accessible!
> >> <http://votensw.info/enrolment>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Can you clarify that?  Are you saying that the site doesn't 
> comply with WCAG 2.0 because the information is only available in PDF?
> > 
> > Kerry
> >