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Re: Hints for screen reader speech attributes

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Date: Apr 30, 2020 7:13AM

It isn't possible to do this with ARIA, no. You may be interested in the
work of the W3C Pronunciation Task Force though.

Explainer: Improving spoken pronunciation on the web
https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-explainer/

Pronunciation gap analysis and use cases
https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-gap-analysis-and-use-cases/


On 30/04/2020 14:06, Ofer Bartal wrote:
> Hi,
> As a website developer, I'm interested in giving hints or suggestions to
> the user's screen reader on how to read certain text.
>
> For example, I'd like the following italic to be read in a higher pitch:
> The *quick* brown fox jumped over the *lazy* dog
>
> Is there a way to do that in ARIA?
>
> Thanks!
> Ofer Bartal
> > > > >

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