- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:14:47 -0400 (EDT)
- To: David Suarez de Lis <phdavidl@usc.es>
- cc: WAI-IG Mailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
oh, try parens or <> then again, it might think it's invalid html if you use the latter. I like your idea though. what makes you think it will change pitch? On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, David Suarez de Lis wrote: *Hi all... * *i have been trying to work around the 'smiley problem', ie, that ':)' *means nothing for aural browsers... * *my current solution is to use a <span class="smiley">*smile*</span> (or **wink* or *pout* or whatever...) and the use a CSS stylesheet so the **smile* is printed out in red (or pronounced in a different peach, *although I haven't tried aural stylesheets as I cannot yet check them) * *Booby approves my pages but on accessibility tips it comments about ASCII *art... * *The only thing I can think of as ASCII art is the '*' surrounding the *words... how much of a problem is "*grin*" for an aural UA? Would it be *better just "smile" and making it to stand out of the main text via the *stylesheet? * *Any help appreciated... *(note: pages with this are, if you like to check, at *Http://web.usc.es/~phdavidl/slidedraw/, any comments and suggestions *really welcome...) * *Thanks, *David@ * *-- *<sig> <who> David Suárez de Lis * <uri> mailto:phdavidl@usc.es * <from><institution> University of Santiago de Compostela * <country> SPAIN <federation> EU </from> *</sig> * -- Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 poehlman@clark.net ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman Dynamic solutions Inc. Best of service for your Small Business network Needs Http://www.dnsolutions.com
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