Open Bug 1228468 Opened 9 years ago Updated 4 months ago

Add l10n comment for Roles in accessible properties files

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

defect

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Tracking Status
firefox45 --- affected

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(Reporter: yfdyh000, Unassigned)

Details

Extraction and add comments to strings in accessibility properties files from https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/base/Role.h.
This is greatly helpful for localizer to understand the exact meaning of strings. Or, at least add an comment (link) to these files for reference. This reduces the difficult of works, but the increase the operating for localizer.

Related files:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/accessibility/AccessFu.properties
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/system/locales/accessibility.en-US.properties
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/tv_apps/smart-system/locales/accessibility.en-US.properties



Another request, might we can merge the same strings to a file, and provide separate files for product strings? Or, a unified file with the prefix to distinguish? This can avoid the translations and terminology maybe not uniform on various products.
But there may be difficulties, for strings entity id and changes. Maybe it needs a library/module to complete...
Severity: normal → S3
Keywords: access

Removing unnecessary access keyword, since the bug is already in the Disability Access component and has severity set.

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