Draft Decision Letter

Based on the conversations following TPAC, we, the Pronunciation Task Force
(TF), decided to pursue the "single-attribute" approach for Specification
for Spoken Presentation in HTML <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/>.

Following that decision, the ARIA Working Group (WG) provided additional
feedback <https://www.w3.org/2021/12/01-pronunciation-minutes.html> that we
would like to address. In an effort to reach prototype implementation, we
propose to scale back the eight (8) sections of the specification
(currently section 3.1
<https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#data-ssml-attribute-properties-and-values>)
to four (4):

   - say-as <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#say-as>
   - break <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#break> (pausing)
   - phoneme <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#phoneme>
   - sub <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#sub>

Based on the gap analysis
<https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/gap-analysis/#gap-analysis>, the TF
feels these qualities of speech represent the most value to the widest
audience and propose they be included in the first phase of prototype
development.

Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:20:45 UTC