On Don, 2003-01-02 at 19:43, Richard Grevers wrote:
Proper, but in all practicality, pointless. I have
done quite a bit of
testing of websites in various talking browsers. Most use the IE rendering
engine and simply read the text that ends up on screen. They are almost
totally dependent on punctuation, and don't respect breaks in HTML (even
list items or table cells). Thus the entire left-hand bar on Wikipedia
would be read as one long sentence - "Main page recent changes random page
current events" etc. None of them know anything about CSS.
I've done a search a few months ago and found a couple that claimed to
be aural CSS compliant. Can't find them again, though. This may be the
Linux project you referred to:
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if these are actually used. But it seems to me that it's a
better long-term plan to use these standards rather than to accomodate
the idiosyncratic behavior of current speech browsers.
I'd also like to get feedback from blind/disabled users on this.
Regards,
Erik
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