Re: [html4all] HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

On 14/05/2008, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>  On May 14, 2008, at 21:02, Matt Morgan-May wrote:
>
>  A UA can measure font metrics before it draws text. Why wouldn't it measure
> speech time of a string before speaking it? Or checking that the string
> matches something in its dictionary?
>
>
> > It would have to be, for a UA
> > to handle it. But clearly you are pushing responsibility for missing @alt
> > from the author to the user and/or the user's AT, which you yourself are
> > arguing cannot handle it.
> >
>
>  It's a situation AT needs to be deal with anyway--no matter what's
> conforming syntactically.
>
>
> > Should they just try harder, then?
> >
>
>  Yes.
>
>
> > Who's going to give them advice on how to do that?
> >
>
>  I would hope detecting what strings take very long to speak or that don't
> appear to contain words from a dictionary is something that AT vendors
> wouldn't need external advice on.

That isn't how screen readers work. Screen readers work by converting
text into phonemes that they can then synthesise and output to the
user. This approach is obviously a lot quicker and more flexible than
containing a static list of dictionary entries.


Gez


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