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Originally Posted by j.p.s
My question was theoretical, but I thought the whole point of the ALT attribute was to address accessibility and that accessibility was a major use case for TTS.
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You'd think so, wouldn't you? I don't know much about the Accessibility stuff but it seems to me that Accessibility features of an OS and the TTS feature included in some of the better epub reader apps are not really related, at least not on Android. The same voice might be used by both, but that's about it. Even there, if you add a pronunciation correction for a word for a particular voice in an epub app, I'm not sure it will be used by the Accessibility app. IOS might be different, but I've never used it.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
It's a shame if no TTS out there uses the ALT attribute. No use shaming authors/publishers on that one then.
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I suppose I ought to qualify my previous statement with "last time I tested this I couldn't find anything that worked". It was quite a while ago. Some of the Android apps get updated so frequently it's possible one of them snuck in a new feature without me noticing. I must get around to re-testing everything some time.
The saddest part about TTS is that most of the development effort seems to be going into corporate listening devices, like the Amazon Echo and Apple/Google/Microsoft equivalents. Personally I'd prefer more effort directed to truly enhancing the lives of the visually-impaired than general enhancement of shopping convenience, music playing and weather prediction.