- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 12:17:46 -0500 ()
- To: Daniel Dardailler <Daniel.Dardailler@sophia.inria.fr>
- cc: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org, jongund@uiuc.edu, chris@w3.org
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Daniel Dardailler wrote: > > I'm forwarding Jon's message to HC, and I have also told Jon to > followup on this forum rather than on IG. Jon writes: > Is there any attributes in the current proposal for adding text to > selectors when they are rendered in a browser. For example in the > following style sheet excerpt is an example of how text could be > added to automatically to label selectors for people using screen > readers, or other forms of speech output or enlarged text using an > attribute named "preamble". > > ** style sheet ** > H1 { preamble: "Header Level 1" > font-family: times-roman > font-size: 12 } > > ** HTML ** > <H1>Introduction to CSS</H1> > > ** Screen Display *** > > Header Level 1 Introducation to CSS > > The speech system would identify the text as a header since it would be > rendered on the screen, yet the user could select what they wanted (if at > all) the message to say. This is similar to a concept proposed in the > Auditory Style Sheets. At one point there was a proposal for inserting text before or after an element. Sadly this was rejected by the CSS and FP working group. I think there is a good case to be made for the more specific proposal for speak-before and speak-after, defined in a similar manner to cue-before and cue-after. For example: Property name: 'speak-before' (or 'speak-after') Value: "quoted text" | none Initial: none Applies to: all elements Inherited: no Percentage values: N/A where the "quoted text" is a quoted text string to be spoken before (or after) the rendering of the given element. cue-before and cue-after are limited to auditory icons specified via a URL. speak-before and speak-after would provide a means to insert text directly from the style sheet. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2984 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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