On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 2:31 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 1:36 PM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4:16:26 PM UTC-4 Xiaocheng Hu wrote: > >> Update since I2P: The 'spell-out' value is not implemented because it > is currently unimplementable (crbug.com/1247764). As the spec requires > alphabetic counter styles with 'speak-as: auto' to use the 'spell-out' > value, we use 'words' instead. This aligns with what Firefox currently does. > > > > With 2 engines shipping (as soon as this ships, anyways) speak-as: auto > => speak-as: words, have you passed that feedback to the spec editors, as > the de-facto interoperable (and implementable) behavior? > > This feedback was provided in > <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6040#issuecomment-799868468>, > but I answered it in > <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6040#issuecomment-840874164> > with what should be an acceptable interim solution. There wasn't a > further reply from Xiaocheng, so I figured my suggestion was > acceptable; I guess that wasn't the case? > I somehow missed that... Let me discuss with our accessibility team to see how it works. > "words" will give a *broken* behavior to alphabetic lists; it would > mean that the 27th list item in an alphabetic list (with counter "aa") > would be pronounced as a single long a sound (as you can hear in > `speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("aa"))`; the 28th > would be the word "ab", etc. I don't think this is acceptable for > screen-reader users. The interim solution I gave would read them out > correctly, as you can hear in `speechSynthesis.speak(new > SpeechSynthesisUtterance("a a"))`. > > ~TJ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAFqEGhYwcV7eRHKMUjA7NzMOEL65AgutKp48%3DdCoKykxet5aog%40mail.gmail.com.
