[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39667: Improve showing metadata in media view

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#39667: Improve showing metadata in media view
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 Reporter:  Presskopp                            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |  adamsilverstein
 Priority:  normal                               |      Status:  assigned
Component:  Media                                |   Milestone:  Awaiting
 Severity:  normal                               |  Review
 Keywords:  has-screenshots has-patch dev-       |     Version:
  feedback has-unit-tests                        |  Resolution:
                                                 |     Focuses:
                                                 |  accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 @adamsilverstein I'm not sure that would be feasible or approachable,
 considering all this should also be translatable...
 By the way, the point is screen readers are often unable to get what
 specific format is, so they will announce something like `1:02:00` just as
 numbers and the colons doing a little pause:
 `one ... zero two ... zero zero`.
 thus making difficult to understand what that means. Providing an
 alternative text, in this case by the means of an aria-label, would be
 great and would allow to use a string in a more natural, spoken-like,
 language. I mean, as you would normally say that in your every-day English
 :) for example"
 `one hour, two minutes, zero seconds`.
 I have no idea how to do that programmatically though.

 The size case is a bit easier. I've done something similar in another
 project recently, just avoiding to use abbreviations. Also, depending on
 what character is used for the "x", the size may be read out as:
 `384 /ˈɛks/ 216 pee /ˈɛks/` or `384 times 216 pee /ˈɛks/`
 Simply using a natural language would solve the issue:
 `384 by 216 pixels`

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39667#comment:17>
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