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Re: best practice for Americanized foreign words

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From: Shawn Henry
Date: Jul 20, 2021 7:36PM

On 20-Jul-21 1:10 PM, John Northup wrote:
> I think this could turn into a never-ending battle for screen reader pronunciation. Consider the word "content." With emphasis on the first syllable, it's a noun. Emphasize the second syllable and it's either a verb or an adjective.

Good news: W3C WAI [1] is working on this! See:
Pronunciation Overview
https://www.w3.org/WAI/pronunciation/

Best,
~Shawn
<http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/>;

[1] World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) https://www.w3.org/WAI/