August 12, 2003
Aural Style Sheets

Buried in the cascading style sheet spec (already more than I need to know) I found this - a style sheet that determines how a page is rendered in speech and sound.l

Aural style sheets

Besides the obvious accessibility advantages, there are other large markets for listening to information, including in-car use, industrial and medical documentation systems (intranets), home entertainment, and to help users learning to read or who have difficulty reading.

When using aural properties, the canvas consists of a three-dimensional physical space (sound surrounds) and a temporal space (one may specify sounds before, during, and after other sounds). The CSS properties also allow authors to vary the quality of synthesized speech (voice type, frequency, inflection, etc.).

Posted by Dave at August 12, 2003 02:20 PM