rephrased prosody comment

Author: dginev

gap-analysis/index.md

@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ Various proposals have been discussed for the syntax to be supported by the inte
 
 An advantage of this proposal is that it can be implemented using current technology without changes to other web standards, other than to specify that the attribute should be part of the accessibility tree built by browsers. While the functional syntax [‘name(arg1, ...)’]  represents a MathML-specific encoding, it is relatively easy to generate and to consume.
 
-The `intent` attribute is meant to be passed to AT. This allows AT to decide what is appropriate, based on the needs/preferences of the reader. It avoids the problem of having to know whether to embed in `aria-label` speech geared to someone who can't see the screen (and hence needs begin/end cues) or geared to someone who can see the screen and needs audio reinforcement to help them decode what they see.
+The `intent` attribute is meant to be passed to AT. This allows AT to decide what is appropriate, based on the needs/preferences of the reader. It avoids the problem of having to know whether to embed in `aria-label` speech geared to someone who can't see the screen (and hence needs begin/end cues) or geared to someone who can see the screen and needs audio reinforcement to help them decode what they see. As `intent` annotations work together with the presentation tree, they enable AT to add prosody cues, e.g. forcing a long 'a' sound for a variable named 'a'. That is something which currently can't be done with `aria-label`.
 
 Considerable investigation is underway to collect names of math concepts and operators, when they are associated with dedicated notational conventions. The group is also exploring common presentation markup patterns which could be prescribed a "default interpretation", so that AT could assume an `intent` value over their classic, unannotated, MathML 3 tree.  Elementary math examples can often be made accessible using only such default rules, and many intermediate examples can be handled by only encoding ambiguous operators and their arguments.  Even more complex examples such as integral forms where the differential appears as part of the expression for the integrand can be properly separated into their constituent parts and indexed into via the associated `arg` attribute.