- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:35:21 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
As a linguist who has just been introduced to accessibility, this is
an extremely interesting issue.
1) I definitely agree that users of screen reader be able to add
their own pronunciations, but that wouldn't help with unfamiliar
words.
2) I don't think of pronunciation as a formatting issue myself, but
defintely content. I would prefer meta tag with standard transription
symbols. Something like
<meta pron key
"Unum": jun@m (IPA) where @ = schwa and j= English y
"Unum": yun@m (American transcription)
NaCl: sodi@m klorayd ("sodium chloride")
I understand this is usuallly pronounced "nackle"?
Does the <abbr> tag play a role here?
</meta>
This would also help with the really unusual words I have to deal
with from Old Irish and other exotic languages/words. Jaws really
stumbles on these.
Obviously this would require extensive retraining in the Webmaster
community on language transcription issues, but for people who deal
with a lot of unusual words, language, it could be worth it.
BTW - I say it's their company, so they can pronounce it anyway they want :)
My two cents
Elizabeth Pyatt
P.S. Do any of the screen readers support the <lang> tag?
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Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2003 16:16:01 UTC