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
