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Gender-neutral language (wildcards) causing screen reader issues #23964

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PeterSchmidt23 opened this issue May 8, 2023 · 2 comments
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PeterSchmidt23 commented May 8, 2023

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It looks like some terms in the German language are translated gender neutral (with wildcard for the non-binary ones).
As a result, people with visual impairments can't use the frontend properly because the screen readers don't support it.
It is also not recommended by DBSV.
Attached is the information from the DBSV.
https://www.dbsv.org/gendern.html

See ein*e Benutzer*in

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For better readability, the masculine term should be used.

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Closing this since it's not a bug, per se, but we would wholeheartedly welcome a PR to edit any .po files to fix accessibility issues like this... especially since most of us committers don't speak German (none that I'm aware of, in fact). Thanks in advance for any help on this front.

@rusackas rusackas added design:accessibility Related to accessibility standards i18n:german Translation related to German language labels Feb 27, 2024
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Well... actually... I'll re-open this. It seems legit, and maybe someone can tackle it. It's just stale though, so we might close it if nobody pitches in after a while.

@rusackas rusackas reopened this Feb 27, 2024
@rusackas rusackas changed the title Gender-neutral language Gender-neutral language (wildcards) causing screen reader issues Feb 27, 2024
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