The explainer “Improving Spoken Presentation on the Web” explores what mechanisms can be provided to give pronunciation guidance in #HTML content - this is helpful for #accessibility and for voice assistants reading content off the Web
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Mar 10, 2020 · 1:15 PM UTC
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.@w3c has an existing #WebStandard to describe speech presentation: #SSML, an XML-based format broadly adopted by speech-based systems, including voice assistants: w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
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Two approaches are being explored: 1) either in-lining #SSML markup the same way as #SVG or #MathML can be, or 2) bringing the SSML model via attributes in HTML
w3.org/TR/2020/WD-pronunciat…
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This work comes from the Pronunciation #TaskForce of the @w3c Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) #WorkingGroup #a11y
If you want to help make Web pages more pronounceable, a @w3c task force is starting to look at this.