Hey Xiaocheng! Should we consider this intent on hold until Tab's points are addressed?
On Friday, September 17, 2021 at 11:57:28 PM UTC+2 Xiaocheng Hu wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 2:31 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 1:36 PM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4:16:26 PM UTC-4 Xiaocheng Hu wrote: >> >> Update since I2P: The 'spell-out' value is not implemented because it >> is currently unimplementable (crbug.com/1247764). As the spec requires >> alphabetic counter styles with 'speak-as: auto' to use the 'spell-out' >> value, we use 'words' instead. This aligns with what Firefox currently does. >> > >> > With 2 engines shipping (as soon as this ships, anyways) speak-as: auto >> => speak-as: words, have you passed that feedback to the spec editors, as >> the de-facto interoperable (and implementable) behavior? >> >> This feedback was provided in >> <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6040#issuecomment-799868468>, >> but I answered it in >> <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6040#issuecomment-840874164> >> with what should be an acceptable interim solution. There wasn't a >> further reply from Xiaocheng, so I figured my suggestion was >> acceptable; I guess that wasn't the case? >> > > I somehow missed that... Let me discuss with our accessibility team to see > how it works. > > >> "words" will give a *broken* behavior to alphabetic lists; it would >> mean that the 27th list item in an alphabetic list (with counter "aa") >> would be pronounced as a single long a sound (as you can hear in >> `speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("aa"))`; the 28th >> would be the word "ab", etc. I don't think this is acceptable for >> screen-reader users. The interim solution I gave would read them out >> correctly, as you can hear in `speechSynthesis.speak(new >> SpeechSynthesisUtterance("a a"))`. >> >> ~TJ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/a950cfdc-3ac9-48e2-8fcd-293aa1826daan%40chromium.org.
