ability to shorten longer announcements on web pages like heading level x, etc.

[hozosch]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It is not a problem in the sense of a bug, but it is something that was brought to my attention by one Jaws user who's getting more and more into NVDA.

Describe the solution you'd like

IN Jaws, you can shorten those announcements as described in the title of this issue, or even replace them with sounds and such. I understand the issue of copying anything from a different product, but I also think those who see this as a problem should be able to eliminate it, that is, being able to shorten the heading announcements if they so wish.

Describe alternatives you've considered

So far, the only way is to do it in the dictionary, but that would mean it would be shortened everywhere, which is perhaps not really what you want. Another way, if you're geeky, is to modify the translation file for yourself if it's a different language, but that's not good either. Maybe though, this doesn't need to be integrated in the core, an add-on would do the job just fine as well.

Additional context

[mltony]

Could you describe in more detail how does Jaws do it? If you replace the whole announcement with an earcon, then you lose information about the level. Does it also allow replacing "Heading level" with a user-configurable string?
FWIW I am now working on extending my Phonetic Punctuation addon, one of the new features is going to be replacing role announcements (e.g. "heading") with earcons. As for the level, I was thinking about setting synthesizer pitch depending on heading level, but can consider alternative rules.

[hozosch]

Yes, a user configurable string is what I mean. For example, h1, h2 etc. is what I was thinking of, and that's also how Jaws can be customized from what i understand.