Re: Hawaiian Diacritics

Getting caught up on emails...

What is really needed, but might not exist at the moment, is the ability
to add a phonetic alphabet encoding as an accessibility attribute


David, if you are not already familiar with this emergent work at the W3C,
check it out, it's cool!
https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-explainer/

To be clear, there is little to no support in screen readers today for
this, but the Working Group have been in discussions with the major SR
players and the spec is evolving based on that feedback, so we all really
feel it's more a question of "when" rather than "if". Stand by!

JF

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:32 PM David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 06/05/2022 20:49, Ryan McCalla wrote:
> > language in digital media. Our Communications Office has put together
> > some recommendations
> > <
> https://www.hawaii.edu/offices/communications/standards/hawaiian-language-considerations/>.
>
> > I
>
> In the example, your tool output is missing a lang attribute.  I think:
>
> <span aria-label=”Hawaii”>Hawai&#699;i</span>
>
> should be:
>
> <span lang="haw" aria-label=”Hawaii”>Hawai&#699;i</span>
>
> Also providing an English version for assistive technology doesn't
> really feel right to me - you are denying the speech synthesizer user
> the proper pronunciation - although it may be a necessary hack given
> current tools and current markup mechanisms.
>
> What is really needed, but might not exist at the moment, is the ability
> to add a phonetic alphabet encoding as an accessibility attribute, e.g.
> as the hypothetical:
>
> <span lang="haw" XXphonetic="[həˈwɐjʔi]">Hawai&#699;i</span>
>
> I've used one of the detailed IPA versions, from the Wikipedia article,
> but don't know if it is actually correct.  I would caveat that no
> practical phonetic transliteration can be completely accurately rendered
> without taking account of the language and regional accent
>
>
>

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