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Expand Up @@ -254,8 +254,15 @@ Its values are:
or as "should" rather than "must" requirements.

* `auto`: the default state, assumed if the attribute is omitted.
Assistive technologies must attempt to automatically determine
whether to behave as `complementary` or as `phonetic`.
A speech user agents must attempt to automatically determine
whether to behave as `complementary` or as `phonetic`:
if it can determine
that the ruby annotation is a possible pronunciation
of the corresponding ruby base,
it should behave as `phonetic`;
if it can determine that it is not,
or if it cannot be sure either way,
it should behave as `complementary`.

In all cases, it is understood that the above requirements
describe the default behavior speech user agents.
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