Real life <ruby> example

Hi,

I thought it might be interesting to see how <ruby> is functionally used 
on websites as opposed as just examples showing how it works, which 
represent the majority of the examples I've been able to find. Of 
course, a big reason for this is that it is primarily used on Japanese 
language pages and my ability to find those is not great since I speak 
only English. However, with some help from ChatGPT I have found what I 
consider a prototypical example:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

Note that it is an "easy" version of the page:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/

You can clearly see the small annotations above the Kanji. It isn't 
above every single character, only those that are likely to benefit from 
pronunciation clarification. I think this is quite in line with how we 
are envisioning symbol annotation to work - as an assist, not a complete 
translation.

Another nice thing about this page is that the HTML is old style and 
easily readable if you are interested in examining it - not generated by 
an indecipherable cascade of machine-generated javascript function calls.

 From discussion about <ruby> on other pages, I get the impression that 
it is primarily used in an educational context for reading development, 
similar to this example.

Russell

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 15:39:47 UTC