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Re: soft hyphens hard coded

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From: wolfgang.berndorfer@zweiterblick.at
Date: Jan 11, 2021 1:13PM

Thanks Patrick for your estimation,

I thought of that too, but my tests with different German speech
synthesizers in different AT (jaws & nvda) and browsers showed similar
experiences.

And since I didn't find any spec, I thought, there should be one and where
if not in UAAG?

Wolfgang

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 8:48 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] soft hyphens hard coded

On 11/01/2021 19:37, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Is hyphenation underestimated in the WAI?
>
> Sorry, but I must get verbose to describe the background:
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> UAAG 2.0 1.4.6 is only AAA and passes as soon as it's possible to use
> stylesheets. Correct? So, every HTML-page passes the SC.
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> WCAG don't deal hyphenation at all yet and in 2.2. I just found a
> discussion in the LVWG from 2016, which faded out soon.
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> Problem:
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> *&shy;* determines in HTML a potential visual break at the LINE END
> and an interruption in speech synthesizers on EACH instance.

To me, this sounds like a bug/shortcoming in speech synthesizers, rather
than anything that WCAG or authors should have to address. Soft hyphens
should not be causing a pause at all, I'd argue. Suggest this is brought up
with AT developers?

P
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