Re: CSS issue: Need control of what is perceived by which technologies

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Antony Kennedy <antony@silversquid.com> wrote:
> Is this something that can be sensibly achieved with media queries?  @media
> not speech and  @media speech seem like they should work great here.
> However, the screen reader attaches to the output of the browser (what the
> browser sends via Operating System APIs) and not the browser itself, so when
> the browser is parsing the CSS it never understands to expose or not expose
> these pieces. aria attributes work correctly here though, so there must be a
> solution!

If this were true, then "speech" media would be completely useless.  I
believe browsers can tell when a page is being read by AT, and can
provide customized information for it.  (I could be wrong, though...)

~TJ

Received on Monday, 26 November 2012 18:01:58 UTC