Re: accessibility- assisting speach readers with foreign place names

Mark:
You could try using the lang attribute:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang

"Language information specified via the lang attribute may be used by a user
agent to control rendering in a variety of ways. Some situations where
author-supplied language information may be helpful include:

Assisting search engines
Assisting speech synthesizers
Helping a user agent select glyph variants for high quality typography
Helping a user agent choose a set of quotation marks
Helping a user agent make decisions about hyphenation, ligatures, and
spacing
Assisting spell checkers and grammar checkers"

HTH,



~ Kathleen Anderson
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com
email: kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "China Net" <szcam(at)pub.sz.jsinfo.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: May 28, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: accessibility- assisting speach readers with foreign place names


> Hi listers,
>     Whilst updating one of my sites to take into account some of the
> accessibility issues that have been recently been being discussed here.
> (Should have done it first time but the site was done a long time ago and
I
> had not even thought about speech readers etc <slapping one's self on the
> wrist />) I suddenly thought of the amount of times I was using the place
> name SUZHOU. Ok read it out loud and I bet there are few of you who
> pronounce it correctly (any of our Chinese speaking members can skip that
> bit far too easy).
>
> now for the question. For those of our browsers whom may happen upon a
site
> with strange place names or even unusual surnames and are using a text to
> speech program is there any way to help the text to speech program with
the
> pronunciation or tell the program that the word is in a specific language
> without the text being altered.
>
> Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated and may give us all an
> insight into the inner workings of some of the text to speech browsers and
> programs available.
>
> Regards
> Mark Bolton
> www.boltonmedia.com
> www.cn-display.com High definition LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon)
> Televisions and Projectors
> www.asiabase.dk  Market Consulting for the Chinese market
> www.global-indust.com  State-of-the-art outsourced components production
and
> quality management
>
>

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