A web page that contains a sentence where the meaning of the word “row” can be determined with the provided pronunciation information (provided with simple Ruby annotation with parentheses). In user agents that support Ruby (and XHTML 1.1), the pronunciation is displayed alongside the annotated word in a smaller font. In user agents that do not support Ruby, the pronunciation is displayed in parentheses. Ambiguous word (homograph) with pronunciation information in simple Ruby annotation and with parentheses (<html:acronym>XHTML</html:acronym> 1.1) Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2006-08-30 accepted by both validators

This test case is intended to pass because pronunciation information is provided.

Check whether you can identify the meaning of the word “row” (without knowing the pronunciation).

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What were the people doing when they were asked the time?

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The user can determine “row” here means “noisy argument, quarrel” and not “line, queue”.

This test case maps to technique H62: Using the ruby element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H62).

For more heteronyms see The Heteronym Page.

The example is inspired by http://archive.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/history/topic/51900-1.html. See also “row” in Webster's online dictionary.