Title: Skipping
Last modified: August 21, 2020

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# Skipping

 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-5837566)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skipping/)
 * The plugin does a fairly good job of automatically ignoring code and just reading
   the text. However, while it might make sense in theory for it to read image alt
   text for accessibility purposes, and someone else mentioned this as well, it 
   doesn’t really work out very well in actual practice.
 * For example, if you have a gallery of images, it’ll simply read the alt text 
   for each image, one after the other, without any context. And even with context,
   it wouldn’t really offer any benefit to listeners anyway. It’s just confusing/
   jarring. Of course, that’s only my opinion.
 * In any case, we need a way to be able to omit parts of our post content which
   should not be added to the audio.
 * What I’m trying to do is utilize the “Skip tags” setting to have control over
   this. So, I’m using a custom HTML tag, `<skip> ... </skip>` to wrap around areas
   I don’t want read and then adding the tag to the “Skip tags” settings. I’ve tried
   adding `skip` and `<skip>` to this field, and neither work.
 * I did find an apparent official way to omit content from text-to-speech:
 * [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/CustomizingWordPress.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/CustomizingWordPress.html)
 * Using:
 *     ```
       -AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-START-
       Something that shouldn't be read into the .mp3 file here.
       -AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-END-
       ```
   
 * However, the doc is a little confusing, incomplete, or out-dated.
 * Adding these tags, as expected, has no effect. Maybe they’re supposed to be shortcodes
   instead (that would make more sense)?
 *     ```
       [AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-START]
       Something that shouldn't be read into the .mp3 file here.
       [AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-END]
       ```
   
 * Or maybe they’re supposed to be HTML comments?
 *     ```
       <!-- AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-START -->
       Something that shouldn't be read into the .mp3 file here.
       <!-- AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORD-END -->
       ```
   

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