Is there a standard or proposed web API that allows websites to initiate the browser’s Translate feature?
1. English website includes “View in French” button
2. user clicks button
3. the browser’s “Translate to French” dialog pops up
Other features that browsers should have got a long time ago, but they don't:
- Text to speech: Aural CSS should have widespread support, instead on zero. The old Opera tried, and ended removing it. It would be great to have your browser read you long articles that their writers have marked so they are not the monotonous shit we usually get from TTS. Wouldn't be great to hear long articles as if they were podcasts?
- Voice control: the perfect complement to text to speech.
- Printing: there are CSS features, but they are still not enough. As far as I know, we still can't print a table across pages keeping the header on top of every page, for example. Even worse, most of pages are not tailored for it, so we more user features to fix them.
@jgg I don’t get it. Would the voice be computer-generated or provided by the website?