Nvda and mark tag in html5.

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Reported by khsruru on 2014-07-03 15:21
Hi, I’m Hyongsop Kim in Korea.
I have a question about Nvda and html5 mark tag.
As you know, the mark tag is used to mark some text and sighted person sees as if the pen is marked.
But Nvda doesn’t support mark tag.
So I thought how to support it.
Verbal method is that inform too much information.
So how about using sound?
It is to inform that start and end of the mark with different sound as if browse mode and focus mode sound.
As a reference, I attached a short html file that used with two marks.

Thank you.

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Attachment Mark Hambugger.html added by khsruru on 2014-07-03 15:22
Description:

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2014-07-03 21:36
The mark element is used for semantic highlighting. At least in Firefox, it changes the background colour. Whether we should support this explicitly is controversial. For example, the strong element is for semantic indication of strong importance. It gets represented as bold in most browsers, so we just report bold, not "strong". Similarly, we can already report background colour, so you can already detect marked text. All of that said, it does seem like this might be more semantically relevant to most people than "strong".

It's not currently possible to use sounds for formatting attributes in NVDA. Like other formatting attributes, this would be reported using text. Sounds might be possible at some point in the future, but that would be a much broader feature.

[jscharett]

Any updates? Would love to see support for this if possible.

[jcsteh]

This would require changes in the various browsers. For Firefox, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982125

[Adriani90]

The part with Sound could be achieved once speech refactoring has been implemented. So also might be blocked by #8877

[josephsl]

Hi,

Not that one - #4877 is the speech refactor issue. Thanks.

[ehollig]

Now that Mozilla Bug 982125 and #4877 is resolved, this may be possible, in Firefox at least.

[Adriani90]

cc: @feerrenrut

[CyrilleB79]

Could anyone remove blocked and blocked:needexternalfix labels?

[Adriani90]

Closing as fixed by #12892 and #11436.
The part to have this indicated by a sound is a different feature request which should be filled separately with the new feature request template, explaining also why this should only be added to mark tags.