Tab wrote: > 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.
Brett wrote: > 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. Wikipedia can easily use data:... if it needs to. And wiktionary already has a solution... A better challenge is explaining to a screen reader if "read" is "rEd" or "rehD" in a page where you want to define and use both. I claim that this can be addressed with id= on the link and a ref= (or similar) on the use. But before User Agents should be asked to support this, I'd want to see real sites showing an interest. Screen Reader vendors seem ok with the current state - they sell the pronunciation tables...
