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

Hi,

You ask the difference between two task forces, but they're the same
task force. The formal name of the TF is "Spoken Presentation," because
it's scope covers more than just pronunciation, though we tend to call
it pronunciation informally.

And, yes, I'm aware that our docs to date have used lang. I believe my
email stated that we had recently become aware of lang's inadequacies? I
believe I stated our awareness was not yet written up, i.e. not yet
reflected in any published doc?

Best,

Janina

PS: For the details consult the TF's formal Work Statement:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/work-statement


Also, please note this WS is linked from the TF's working wiki page:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/

Guy Hickling writes:
> 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.

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Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:22:45 UTC