- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:01:09 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 3/29/07, Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com> wrote: > WWW is an abbreviation for World Wide Web. > I tend to pronounce WWW as "double-u, double-u, double-u", so it is an > initialism. > Tim Berners-Lee and some others pronounce WWW as "wuh, wuh, wuh" (sp?), > so to them it might be an acronym. What about an attribute that could link to a prononciation file ? It could be shapped like the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />, allowing to link to an XML file or a OGG. For example : <abbr type="initialism" prononciationGuide="http://www.example.com/tbl.ogg" content="application/ogg">WWW</abbr>, or <abbr type="initialism" prononciationGuide="http://www.example.com/tbl.xml" content="application/xml">WWW</abbr> This could be used by screen readers to make a correct render of the abbreviation. But this is perhaps in the CSS range, throug phonemes for example (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/#phonemes).
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