- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:13 +0300
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Matt Morgan-May" <mattmay@adobe.com>, "HTML Working Group" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On May 14, 2008, at 23:57, Gez Lemon wrote: >> Whether the speech synthesis is dictionary based is not the point. >> The >> point is, can a screen reader reasonable have *a* dictionary for >> its speech >> language. In many cases, the platform provides spell checking, so a >> screen >> reader could test if a string spell checks successfully to make a >> guess if >> speaking it will be any good. > > Spell checkers often don't have words in their vocabulary that are > legitimate words. What do you suggest happens when a screen reader > encounters a word that it doesn't have in its dictionary? Ignore it? If it is in an src value, then yes, ignore it in the sense of not reading it--at least by default. That seems like a better strategy than trying to speak any src, including those that turn out to be e.g. GUIDs instead of words. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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