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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Dec 18, 2022 2:16AM

On 16/12/2022 8:00 PM, Andrews, David B (DEED) via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> 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.


I couldn't agree with this more. Names (and other words) are pronounced
differently by people with different accents and no-one worries too
much. I've heard wi-fi pronounced why-fy and wee-fee before now to give
one example. So there's really no need to worry about screen readers
getting it wrong sometimes.


It's also near impossible to force screen readers into pronouncing
something the way you want in any case. More on this here:

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/08/advice-for-creating-content-that-works-well-with-screen-readers/







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