On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp <n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > Brett Zamir <bret...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> 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. >> >> 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. > > Is there any reason one cannot use the <ruby> element for pronunciation? > > Example: > > <ruby>Elfriede Jelinek<rp> (</rp><rt>ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk</rt><rp>) </rp></ruby>
That's adequate for visually providing the pronunciation, but I think the original request was for a way to tell screen readers and similar tools how to pronounce an unfamiliar word. ~TJ
