Re: Bug#706902: bugs.debian.org: Adding an a11y tag?

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>]

On 27 June 2017 at 17:16, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:

Alex ARNAUD, on mar. 27 juin 2017 17:44:51 +0200, wrote:
> Le 27/06/2017 à 16:36, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Don Armstrong, on lun. 26 juin 2017 19:26:33 -0700, wrote:
> > > > Its one-letter symbol is ⓐ.
> > >
> > > Ah, I hadn't thought about it. I guess it would make sense that it be ♿?
> >
> > I wasn't in the best position to know if the ISA (♿) was the right
> > symbol (because accessibility means more than mobility accessibility and
> > other questions[1]),

> For example my speech synthesis (espeak) doesn't
> read the one-letter tag.

I'd say it's a bug that should be reported to the speech synthesis.
Ideally it should be able to pronounce all of Unicode. At least the
common symbols should be pronounceable.

Does it speak the wheelchair ? (♿)

The latest development version of espeak-ng has support for Unicode Emoji 5.0, so will read the character as "wheelchair symbol" (or the appropriate phrase in the CLDR translations of that symbol for the given language).

The more complex emoji sequences (e.g. the skintone indicators) are only partially supported. Complete support requires changes to the text processing code, which is complicated and that I am planning for the release after the current version in development.

As a temporary workaround, you can add:

♿    w'i:ltSe@||s'Imb@L

to either en_list or en_extra, as the en_emoji file in the development version is not compatible with 1.49.1 (it uses "♿    wheelchair symbol").

Kind regards,

Reece