- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:58:36 -0400
- To: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "Phill Jenkins" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
this is a battle of intelegences and I guess hpr should employ repair only when repair is needed so as not to fall into redundancies such as that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net> To: "Phill Jenkins" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: RE: Invisible Skip navigation link At 11:16 AM 2002-08-06, Phill Jenkins wrote: >This is a know problem with speech synthesizers. When to treat the period >as punctuation and when to treat it as a dot, as in dot com. Do it the >proper way by following conventional grammar practices and let the >synthesizers get their problems fixed. I don't quite agree. Using punctuation as styling cannot be done in so context-free a manner as HPR is currently doing. If punctuation enough to force a pause is present adjacent to the end of the link, HPR should not be injecting fresh punctuation to achieve a pause because the result is not what HPR intended. A broader context has to be read before deciding what to write in this situation. Al >One way to avoid the dot vs period problem is to never end the sentence >with link text. If you put the link in the middle of the sentence, then >the sentence ends with regular text followed by a period that will get >treated as a period and not a hanging dot. > >By the way, DOH get's read as Date of Hire. What did you mean by DOH? > >Regards, >Phill >IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center > > >"Steve Vosloo" <stevenvosloo@yahoo.com>@w3.org on 08/06/2002 05:06:08 AM > >Sent by: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org > > >To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> >cc: >Subject: RE: Invisible Skip navigation link > > > > >Hi, > >Just tried this in IBM Homepage Reader (HPR) and had a problem with the >ALT on the image. By default HPR adds a full stop to an ALT description, >so ALT="Hello world" gets read as "Hello world." (with a pause after >'world'). But if you add a non-breaking space then you get "Hello world >." which sounds like "Hello world DOT" (because of the space). > >Of course if you use the old ALT="Hello world." you get "Hello world..", >which also sounds like "Hello world DOT". > >DOH! > >Steve
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