As I don't actually rely on it for screen reader support, I greatly enjoy when people post large blobs of English tagged DE or FR or DA or whatever.

[ah@goto.boserup.eu]

As I don't actually rely on it for screen reader support, I greatly enjoy when people post large blobs of English tagged DE or FR or DA or whatever. It sort of prompts me to read all the words wrong. To pretend English is German and try to make sense of it.

[reynir@social.data.coop]

@ah vaguely related: it really puzzles me when people post text in Danish and then do the image description in English

[pmakholm@social.data.coop]

@reynir I might do that if I use an image with an existing acceptable description.

@ah

[ah@goto.boserup.eu]

@pmakholm @reynir how does this happen / how do you come about "an image with an existing acceptable description"?

[carstenboll@mstdn.dk]

@reynir @ah I do this, but I am not sure why. I guess I expect people can click a button to translate Danish comments but not image descriptions?

[ah@goto.boserup.eu]

Any screen reader users in chat? Does the language tag affect the image description?

[ah@goto.boserup.eu]

Or equivalently, how do we best avoid the situation where the screen reader starts reading one language as if it was another.

[pmakholm@social.data.coop]

@ah Either when I'm reposting a meme'ish illustration or whem I pick an illustration from WikiCommons. @reynir

[reynir@social.data.coop]

@CarstenBoll @ah that sounds broken. I don't use automatic translation and so I have no idea if that's the case. But if you use a screen reader I imagine it will try read the English image description as if it were Danish because you told it it was Danish