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Re: soft hyphens hard coded

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 11, 2021 2:19PM

On 11/01/2021 20:13, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> 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.

So it's a fault with most synthesizers/ATs then? Or how browers output
it to the accessibility APIs/expose it in the accessibility tree? If the
latter, a bug to file against browsers.

Again, soft hyphens, CSS-based hyphenation, etc are visual properties
that should not impact how something is aurally announced.

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

UAAG 2.0 1.4.6 is about the visual presentation, nothing to do with how
it's output as speech by AT.


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