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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Dec 16, 2022 1:00PM

As a screen reader user, I would say you don't need to worry. We get used to a lot of things -- many of which are worse than this. Secondly, most screen readers have a "pronunciation dictionary" where you can teach it how to creative mis-pronounce a word to get it to sound right.

Dave



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Our organization has several products that the official names are two words put together. For example, ABLEnow, Virginia529, etc. When screen readers try to read these they spell out the name. Is there a way to tell screen reader how to pronounce the name? I had thought about wrapping the text with a span tag and having aria-label with the names with a space so they are like a normal word. We are required to have it written with the formatting above which means I would have to add the code in a lot of places. Is there a better way to handle this or is this something we really need to not worry about? Basically what would be best practices when it comes to issues like this?

Thanks

Aaron Krug

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