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Multilingual Website Accessibility: How to make screen readers play prerecorded audio instead of the text?

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From: Mats Blakstad
Date: May 20, 2013 8:23AM

I work on a multilingual website that will contain many languages that
are not normally written, and I wonder if there are any ways to get
this working for people using screen readers? All text will get a
lang-attribute, but several of the languages will not exist for screen
reading.

E.g: one of the translators in the project, that is using a screen
reader translated the project into his native language Kambaata (a
language from Ethiopia), so we started to discuss how it works for
him; he said that when he get a text in Kambaata he will simply make
the screen reader try to read it like an English text and then
interpret it.

As it is not normal to write Kambaata the text can even be hard to
read for someone that don't need a screen reader, so we're going to
add prerecorded sound files to the website, to help native Kambaata
speakers read the text: And I wonder if it is possible to get this
communicated to the screen reader so it will use our prerecorded sound
files instead of trying to read the text itself?