Sarah

That's precisely why interpretation should not happen.  The screen-reader 
should read what's on screen and not what it thinks is meant by something.  
Sure, give the user the option to change it if they prefer.  But don't force 
these abbreviations on us.

Gordon

On 30 Aug 2011, at 17:37, Sarah Alawami wrote:

but that's the thing. what might be writ to one person might not be write to 
another. I read and write things that are right to me and are supposed to be 
pronounced x or y way, how ever the screen reader vender should not decide for 
us what is correct and what is not.

Take care all.
On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:

> Hello Sarah
> 
> The point here, even if you can modify the pronunciation dictionaries is that 
> you shouldn't have too.  The screen-reader should read what is present on 
> screen not what somebody else thinks was meant.
> 
> On 30 Aug 2011, at 16:17, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
> You can just edit the dictionary and see  if that works. I do that a a lot. 
> for words the tI know it will mispronounce, like my name lol! and it read the 
> dates and times correctly in that message btw and I"m using the default 
> voices.
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