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. >> >> ~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
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> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
