Bug 1871419 Comment 0 Edit History

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This bug is created from the following [comment](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1819205#c8) on Bug 1819205:

> This is a great new feature!
>
> Is there a reason why attribute translation was tracked per attribute? There’s a whole bunch of attributes that are exposed to the user. Most importantly those that are exposed via the accessibility API.
>
> A question whether ARIA attributes should be translated, led me to creating an—as far as I know—exhaustive list based on the standards.
>
> Leaving out OpenGraph meta data, which is most likely not exposed to the user:
>
>     alt attributes and title, also for <iframes> or <style> elements
>     label for video tracks
>     placeholder and pattern attributes if the format needs localization
>     value of inputs if not user-defined
>     Human-readable ARIA attributes aria-description, aria-label, aria-placeholder, aria-roledescription, aria-valuetext, aria-braillelabel
>     And also text added by CSS’s pseudo-elements like ::before
>
> Would it make sense to track the whole bunch here?
>
> Thanks!

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Bug 1819205 laid down some infrastructure to translate attributes, starting with `title` and `placeholder`. 

We should now work on extending this functionality to include other attributes such as the ones listed above.
This bug is created from the following [comment](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1819205#c8) on Bug 1819205:

> This is a great new feature!
>
> Is there a reason why attribute translation was tracked per attribute? There’s a whole bunch of attributes that are exposed to the user. Most importantly those that are exposed via the accessibility API.
>
> A question whether ARIA attributes should be translated, led me to creating an—as far as I know—exhaustive list based on the standards.
>
> Leaving out OpenGraph meta data, which is most likely not exposed to the user:
>
>   * alt attributes and title, also for <iframes> or <style> elements
>   * label for video tracks
>   * placeholder and pattern attributes if the format needs localization
>   * value of inputs if not user-defined
>   * Human-readable ARIA attributes aria-description, aria-label, aria-placeholder, aria-roledescription, aria-valuetext, aria-braillelabel
>   * And also text added by CSS’s pseudo-elements like ::before
>
> Would it make sense to track the whole bunch here?
>
> Thanks!

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Bug 1819205 laid down some infrastructure to translate attributes, starting with `title` and `placeholder`. 

We should now work on extending this functionality to include other attributes such as the ones listed above.

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