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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 9, 2017 9:48AM

Good points.
Ultimately it comes down to better support for CSS3 speech support:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/

Webpage authors should be able to have some control over how text is
spoken, just like they have some control over how a page is displayed.
We don't want to give the authors too much control, because users need
to be able to override it (just like they can override most CSS style
seets with their own).


On 5/9/17, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> This is complicated because some abbreviations are intended to be read out
> as individual letters - acronyms like BBC - wheres some abbreviations are
> supposed to read out as a word - example Gen. for General. Additionally,
> some acronyms are commonly read out as if they were a word - examples UCAS,
> CAMRA, NASA.
>
> We no longer have the <acronym> tag, just the <abbr> element. So getting
> screen readers to read them out correctly with just the <abbr> tag with the
> title attribute is a real challenge.
>
> Last time I tried the <abbr> tag with NVDA, it didn't give any audible
> evidence that an abbreviation was present.
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
> > > > >


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