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Markup hacks for overriding screenreader pronunciations can get… pretty iff-y. So what's a dev to do instead? #accessibility #a11y
https://benmyers.dev/blog/overriding-screenreader-pronunciations/

The Curious Case of “iff” and Overriding Screenreader Pronunciations

Markup hacks to override screenreader pronunciations can get a little iffy. Here's some techniques to try instead.

Ben Myers

@ben I was completely unaware that ”iff” was ever used as an abbreviation for ”if and only if” until this article.

I wonder how many times I’ve read it and assumed it was a typo?

@tylersticka For sure! In this case, I think it tends to be used pretty much just within formal logic/mathematics spaces, so you may never have seen it at all! But for that reason, it's maybe one of the edge-casiest edge cases, which made pretty interesting to use as the core example here.
@ben Absolutely!