On 6/5/2014 3:05 AM, whatwg-requ...@lists.whatwg.org wrote:
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=??a?p?d?>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
I think it'd be a lot easier for sites, say along the lines of
Wikipedia, to support inline markup to allow users to get a word
referenced at the beginning of an article, for example, pronounced
accurately.
Brett
