Hi, Just sharing a point of interest observed during my interactions with Engage using iPhone and Voiceover.
This is regarding the spelling of the word ‘Guestbook’ on Engage. When I listen to it with Voiceover on the iPhone, I hear it as ‘Goosebook’. I wonder if that will help the user understand what the item is. Writing it as two words ‘Guest book’ is an acceptable alternative and I am sure that will be pronounced properly by Voiceover. An earlier research had reported that ‘Home page’ should not be written as ‘Homepage’ because then JAWS pronounces it as ‘Ho ma paage’. In my own research I discovered that ‘Site map’ when written as ‘Sitemap’ is pronounced by JAWS as ‘Sit ‘em up’. It is a known issue that names and compound words can cause problems for synthetic speech. In cases as mentioned above, when an alternative spelling is acceptable, I guess it would be good practice to split rather than combine. I wonder how Voiceover will pronounce if we write GuestBook … I would be happy to test if it seems worth the time. Sam A11y Team, FE
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