Spoken Presentation Task Force

Work statement

To learn about the focus, scope and deliverables of the task force, see the Spoken Presentation Task Force Work Statement.

Overview of the spoken presentation work

• Pronunciation overview — an overview of W3C’s pronunciation technique
• Pronunciation video  — a technical demonstration of approaches for controlling pronunciation in spans of web content where uniform markup can make a difference

Current work

The Spoken Presentation Task Force supports the deliverables of the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group.

For details of the current work, see:

• Spoken Presentation Task Force wiki
• Spoken Presentation Task Force current work

Contribute to the work

The Spoken Presentation Task Force welcomes input from the global accessibility community on the pronunciation work.

Contribute without joining the task force

You can contribute to the work without being a member of the task force in the Pronunciation GitHub repository:

• If you’re aware of an issue with any of the published Spoken Presentation resources, raise a new issue.
• Comment on or propose solutions for open pronunciation issues.

Become a participant in the task force

Joining the Spoken Presentation Task Force enables you to participate fully in the development of the work and influence the deliverables. You and your organization will also be listed as contributors, where appropriate.

Being a participant involves commitment to support the work of the task force in the following ways:

• Engage actively in the work using the task force’s communication channels.
• Keep up with weekly tasks and the progress of the work — for example, via the minutes of past meetings, mailing list discussions, and GitHub issue comments.
• Give your input promptly, when it’s needed.

To become a participant in the Spoken Presentation Task Force, you must first be a member of the APA Working Group — see Instructions for joining the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group.

Once you are a member of the APA Working Group, email the W3C staff contact for the Spoken Presentation Task Force to let them know you’d like to join the task force.

Note: As a participant in one of the APA Working Group’s task forces, you can choose to focus your time exclusively on the task force deliverables and you do not have to contribute to the working group’s other activities.

Task force members

• Chairs
• Current participants

Communications

• Calendar of meetings
• Minutes from previous meetings
• Mailing list archive

Publications

The Spoken Presentation Task Force develops and maintains the following resources for the APA Working Group:

• Pronunciation User Scenarios — 2019 Public Working Draft — provides examples of:
  • end-users, including screen reader users
  • content providers, including educators
  • software developers, including content managements systems
• Pronunciation Gap Analysis and Use — 2020 Public Working Draft — provides details of the gap analysis:
  • gives more contextual details
  • describes required features for pronunciation and spoken presentation
  • describes specific implementation approaches for introducing presentation authoring markup into HTML5 (called “use cases”)
  • provides a gap analysis
  • describes how the required features may be met by existing approaches
• Explainer: Improving Spoken Presentation on the Web — 2020 Public Working Draft: — provides an overview of the work:
  • briefly introduces the context for W3C work on pronunciation
  • describes the advantages and disadvantages of two approaches
  • poses questions for additional input

Contact the chairs

If you have a question for the Spoken Presentation Task Force, email the chairs or the W3C staff contact.