[Accessibility] Re: accessibility Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

[Bill Haneman]

There are canonical names (in English, anyway) which are part of the
Unicode spec.  I believe there are ongoing efforts to provide localized
versions of those names as well, in cases where that is appropriate.

Here's a link to a collated index of unicode character names:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html

Most unicode/UTF-8 libraries include this data, so libraries and apps
can access these names in a standard way.

Bill


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> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:21:55 +0100
> From: Jonathan Duddington <jsd at clara.co.uk>
> Subject: [Accessibility] Names of characters and keys
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> A text-to-speech facility needs to include the ability to speak the
> names of individual characters and also the names of keys on a computer
> keyboard.
> 
> These are specified with the
>   interpret-as="tts:char"
>   interpret-as="tts:key"
> attributes in http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/tts-api/tts-api.html
> 
> 1.  Does a list of these names already exist on the computer, perhaps
> as part of internationalization data, or does every speech synthesizer
> need to produce a list for every language which it supports?
> 
> 2.  Should characters be announced with their proper unicode name, such
> as:
>  "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX"
>  "RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK"
> 
> or would more abbreviated names be expected?
> 
> 3.  When spelling a word (from  interpret-as="glyphs" ) what should the
> TTS do if it finds a letter which is not part of the language's normal
> alphabet?  For example in English, "cafe" with an e-acute, or
> "angstrom" with "Latin letter A with ring above", or a German letter
> "sharp S" for "ss"?
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