Review request: W3C ruby TTS user requirements

[xfq]

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place for this kind of request. If it isn't, please let me know where a more suitable place would be, and I will close this issue.

I’m writing on behalf of the W3C Internationalization Working Group. We recently published a Group Note Draft titled “Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements”:

https://www.w3.org/TR/ruby-tts-req/

The document describes user requirements for text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents that contain ruby annotations, including HTML documents and EPUB publications. It does not prescribe implementation algorithms or new markup, but identifies requirements and considerations that may be relevant to reading systems, accessibility tools, and TTS behavior. 

Given Readium’s role in EPUB reading systems and related accessibility work, we would very much welcome your review and feedback, especially on:

1. Whether the requirements and use cases align with EPUB reading-system behavior and user needs.
2. Whether the document misses any important implementation or user-experience considerations for EPUB.
3. Whether any sections are unclear, impractical, or likely to be difficult for reading systems to interpret.

Feedback can be filed in the document’s GitHub repository:

https://github.com/w3c/ruby-tts-req/issues

Comments on this issue are also very welcome if that is more convenient, and we can transfer or summarize them into the W3C repository as appropriate.

Your input would be very valuable to the Internationalization Working Group as we continue refining the requirements.

[JayPanoz]

Cc @HadrienGardeur and @chocolatkey I guess that impacts us in multiple ways (CLI, speech, TS-toolkit, etc.) and you are ahead of me on that front.

[xfq]

We also have a related explainer document (a very early draft) for your reference: https://github.com/w3c/html-ruby/blob/main/explainers/ruby-tts.md