- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:00:16 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Still cleaning my mailbox.... Garth Wallace writes: > Maybe something like speak-as that would take a string > containing only words (or possibly pronunciation symbols? > I don't know if Unicode has those, though it seems to have > everything else). Otherwise, changes would be required in > HTML, XML, and probably stylesheets as well. Yes, Unicode has the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols. The attribute with the pronunciation was, I believe, first suggested by Dave Raggett, many years back. The people of the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) have also been discussing it in some working groups. (Type "phonetic" or some such in the W3C search engine to find the e-mail threads.) Dave is still working on the issue, in the context of the "voice browser" activity of W3C. See http://www.w3.org/Voice/ (in particular http://www.w3.org/Voice/Activity.html#role) and http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice > > In a related topic, I noticed that in the International Layout > WD, under Ruby, there is no mention of aural properties. I > would assume that the ruby text and not the base would be > spoken, since the ruby is there to show pronunciation > anyway. Yes, I would assume the same. Although maybe it should be an explicit property: ruby | base | both. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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