> Think about the accessibility implications (for e.g. screen readers) if ruby text was supposed to be modelled in the DOM as being interpolated into the text i

> Think about the accessibility implications (for e.g. screen readers) if ruby text was supposed to be modelled in the DOM as being interpolated into the text it's annotating. The <rp> tag exists explicitly for the purpose of interpolating the annotations into the text. So e.g. <ruby>漢字<rp>（</rp><rt>かんじ</rt><rp>）</rp></ruby> will look like 漢字（かんじ） to a client that doesn't support ruby text and a screenreader could read it the same way it would read any other text with parenthetical annotations in it. The standard doesn't actually say what screenreaders are supposed to do, so I guess they could also try something fancy. But they don't have to.