On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Morris
daniel+wha...@honestempire.com wrote:
Hello,
With existing assistive technology such as screen readers, and more
recently the pervasiveness of new technologies such as Siri and Google
Now to name two examples, I have been thinking about the
appropriateness and potential of having a way to represent the
pronunciation of words on a web page.
There is currently no other text-level semantic that I know of for
pronunciation, but we have elements for abbreviation and definition.
As an initial suggestion:
pronounce ipa=“ˈaɪpæd”iPad/pronounce
(Where the `ipa` attribute is the pronunciation using the
International Phonetic Alphabet.)
What are your thoughts on this, or does something already exist that I
am not aware of?
This is already theoretically addressed by link rel=pronunciation,
linking to a well-defined pronunciation file format. Nobody
implements that, but nobody implements anything new either, of course.
~TJ
