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Re: Forcing screen reader pronunciation of abbreviationimportant to a brand

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Apr 13, 2018 9:53AM

You can accomplish this by various ways. It depends on the situation you have at hand. The bottom line is you use ARIA to hijack the HTML element. It may not be the best method from a semantic prospective, but it gets the job done.

For example if I have a paragraph:

<p>
You have purchased NE1254 for $300.
</p>
You can hijack NE1254 using ARIA.

<p>
You have purchased
<span aria-label=" N E 1254">
NE1254</span>
for $300.
</p>

I hope that helps.

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