RE: lang and aria attributes (Re: Hawaiian Diacritics)

The obvious thought would be to extend it with optional selections such as age, region, ethnicity, style/age of the lang. Then if you specify lang=”en” you get whatever the default is but if you optionally specify lang=”en” Voice =”male, middle-ages, West-Midlands” you get a rendition of Chaucerian English by Noddy Holder.

From: Guy Hickling <guy.hickling@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:05 pm
To: WAI Interest Group discussion list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: lang and aria attributes (Re: Hawaiian Diacritics)

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Janina,
What is the difference between your task force and W3C's already existing Pronunciation Task Force? It looks to me as if both TFs have exactly the same objective, "to provide for proper pronunciation in HTML content when using text to speech (TTS) synthesis". But they have already published draft specifications, back last year.

The important thing with their specification is that it does not ditch the lang attribute, which is tried and tested and used universally by TTS software. But now you say your TF thinks it is inadequate, which is worrying. I hope that does not mean there is even the slightest chance of your TF trying to do away with it and replace it with something else? That would cause untold confusion for everyone. Please can you clarify.



Kevin Prince

Product Accessibility & Usability Consultant



E kevin.prince@fostermoore.com

Christchurch

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