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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: May 3, 2020 5:28PM

That post is specific to NVDA. The last comment in relation to Emacspeak is available within Jaws. I do agree with the EmacSpeak concept for NVDA and other screen readers. The user of the assistive technology should control what type of information they hear and how.

In relation using CSS to control screen reader speech. The ARIA approaches they have mention is a far better approach than using CSS from my view. If I get the time, I will add to the post.

Sean




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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
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > >
>
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