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Re: Hints for screen reader speech attributes

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From: Ofer Bartal
Date: May 1, 2020 12:25PM

Thanks!

Using some words from that link, I searched and found this old NVDA thread:
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/4242

And wrote some a post there hopefully to revive the discussion.




On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 16:13 Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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