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From: wolfgang.berndorfer@zweiterblick.at
Date: Jan 12, 2021 8:16AM

Hi Patrick and all,

If shy is used exclusively for meaningful hyphenation off auto-hyphenation, it would also help to realize SC 3.1.6., I'd suppose.
I don't find a restriction for only *visual* usage of shy here:
https://unicode.org/reports/tr14/#SoftHyphen
Do you have any references for not to use shy for aural issues like in pronunciation?

It is a hack but is it also a possible mechanism for SC 3.1.6?
I looked it up and found that shy is not mentioned in the understanding-article for 3.1.6:
https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/meaning-pronunciation.html

But again, if shy were used exclusively for meaningful hyphenation off auto-hyphenation, it would also help to realize 3.1.6., I'd suppose. Two flies at once: meaningful visual hyphenation and pronunciation.

Wolfgang

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 9:43 AM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] soft hyphens hard coded

On 12/01/2021 08:09, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Hyphe‧nation
> The library for auto-hyphenation in the browser has no exception for
> the Hyphe-Nation. So, the author must manually code the hyphenation
> point in
> HTML:
> Hyphe&shy;nation
> The word is correctly wrapped visually and:
> The word is correctly pronounced by speech synthesizers. (There should
> be a small pause between *hyphe* and *nation* to hear the difference).
> I didn't hear any aural problems for that usage. So, the pause is not
> a bug of synthesizers.

Soft hyphenation characters are not intended to be pronounced/announced.
They're a signal that this is a potential hyphenation point to
*visually* break the word. Speech synthesizers should not pause, as they shouldn't pause for CSS automatic hyphenation.

P
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