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From: Peter Krautzberger
Date: Apr 6, 2020 4:51AM

Hello Mohammad,

I would be happy to take a look. Feel free to send me a direct email if you
cannot share it on the list.

Best regards,
Peter.

Am Mo., 6. Apr. 2020 um 12:05 Uhr schrieb mohammad suliman <
<EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> Hello Peter,
>
> Thanks for the resources! Much appreciated! Will have a look.
> The site we are working on uses braille patterns to draw some graph on the
> braille display. It isn't a regular graph, but an actual overview of the
> graph which we calculate according to some method we have developed. We
> need to use those patterns to have full control on the shape of the braille
> data we want to draw on the display. Do you have an access to a braille
> display so I can send you some sample you can examine if do you think this
> is necessary?
> Happy to elaborate more on what we are doing if this is not clear enough.
>
> Have a great time!
> Mohammad
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 10:41, Peter Krautzberger < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Mohammad,
> >
> > Perhaps the following two pieces of information are not directly helpful
> in
> > which case I apologize.
> >
> > First, the ARIA Working Group is currently working on adding new
> attributes
> > for customizing braille output (aria-braillelabel,
> > aria-brailleroledescription). Those properties are only in the ARIA draft
> > so far (cf. [1] below); they will hopefully be added to ARIA 1.3.
> > I'm actively involved in this effort and would be very interested in more
> > information about your use case. Would you be able to share an example of
> > the kind of content you are creating and what you have tested?
> >
> > Second, the APA's pronunciation task force (cf. [2] below) is probably
> also
> > relevant. Its work is at a similarly early stage howevere.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter Krautzberger.
> >
> > [1] https://w3c.github.io/aria/
> > [2] https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/
> >
> > Am Mo., 6. Apr. 2020 um 09:07 Uhr schrieb mohammad suliman <
> > <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > My name is Mohammad Suliman, I am a blind software developer. In the
> > passed
> > > few months, I had the chance to start to work on a web project aiming
> to
> > > help blind people visualize graphs using braille, tones and speech. To
> > > achieve this, we use braille unicode in a special way to represent our
> > > data. Now this leads me to the question: do I need to set the lang
> > > attribute of the braille text to some special value? Does this affect
> how
> > > the screen reader announces this text? We noticed that some TTSs
> announce
> > > the braille characters as braille pattern or something similar, others
> > stay
> > > silent, and others speaks gibberish. I doubt that using HTML or js code
> > we
> > > could control that, am I correct? Also, to be compliant with WCAG
> > > standards, do we need to do something special for the braille unicode
> > text?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > Waiting for your reply!
> > > Mohammad
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >