- From: Brett Zamir <brettz9@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:37:46 +0800
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 6/5/2014 3:05 AM, whatwg-request@lists.whatwg.org wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Morris > <daniel+whatwg@honestempire.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> With existing assistive technology such as screen readers, and more >> recently the pervasiveness of new technologies such as Siri and Google >> Now to name two examples, I have been thinking about the >> appropriateness and potential of having a way to represent the >> pronunciation of words on a web page. >> >> There is currently no other text-level semantic that I know of for >> pronunciation, but we have elements for abbreviation and definition. >> >> As an initial suggestion: >> >> <pronounce ipa=??a?p?d?>iPad</pronounce> >> >> (Where the `ipa` attribute is the pronunciation using the >> International Phonetic Alphabet.) >> >> What are your thoughts on this, or does something already exist that I >> am not aware of? > This is already theoretically addressed by <link rel=pronunciation>, > linking to a well-defined pronunciation file format. Nobody > implements that, but nobody implements anything new either, of course. > > ~TJ I think it'd be a lot easier for sites, say along the lines of Wikipedia, to support inline markup to allow users to get a word referenced at the beginning of an article, for example, pronounced accurately. Brett
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