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Web Axe - Accessibility Tips|Podcast #58: Aural Style Sheets Episode
Dennis and Ross explain aural style sheets, a nifty part of CSS2.Download Web Axe Episode 58 (Aural Style Sheets)News & Announcements ArbCamp - Great Success Ross now a Mac Person San Jose earthquake 5.6 Web Design and Marketing Solutions - Looking for reviewers (graphicpush) Andrew Kirkpatrick - Web Standards and Regulatory ComplianceJared Smith of WebAIM helping revise Section 508Screen Readers sometime ignore display:noneEmail Spambot Buster What are Aural Style Sheets? A way of controlling speech synthesis and auditory icons with CSS2, usually through a screen reader. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 {voice-family: paul;stress: 20;richness: 90;cue-before: url("ping.au")} Supported by: Emacspeak, Fonix SpeakThis, and the Opera Browser Benefits More control over how screen readers will render your documents Also beneficial for those who want your content in a mobile manor (on the road, exercising, almost podcast-esk) Near future, more devices may access internet that you may want read, such as car Example: Speak-numeral element digits: a string of numbers is spoken as a whole number (123 = one hundred twenty-three) continuous: numbers in a string are read successively (123 = one two three) Elements volumespeakpausecureplay-duringspacial elements (ways to have two voices appear from different areas)voice characterspeech ratevoice familypitchpitch-rangestressrichness speak-punctuationspeak-numeral LinksAural Style Sheets specification (W3C)Can You Hear Me Now? (Accessites.org)CSS2 Aural Reference (W3Schools)
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