- From: David Suarez de Lis <phdavidl@usc.es>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:19:45 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: WAI-IG Mailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, David Norris wrote:
> Here is something that surprised me the first time I heard it. My speech
> synthesizer speaks "Winking Smiley Face" when it encounters ;) and it speaks
> "Smiley Face" when it encounters :) There is other ASCII 'art' that it
> speaks. I have noticed these in common practice, though. I am using MS IE
> 5.0 b1 on Windows 98 with MS Voice 4.0 installed. I am using the 'Mike'
> True Voice speech engine that comes with Voice 4.0. I modified one of the
> example programs to read using the Accessibility hooks in Windows 98. It
> isn't as sophisticated as the commercial screen readers, but, it works much
> better for my needs. I dislike all of the other screen readers that I have
> tried. I can, at least, fix mine when it does something stupid ;)
Mmm... that is an idea...
Using CSS2 and the @aural media, I guess we could make some kind of
on-the-fly translator for the most usual ASCII art, so on visual
environments they would see ' :) ' or whatever, and on aural UAs have a
gigle, or a description of the emoticon... that would require CSS2 fully
aware UAs, btw...
Would such a thing be possible with CSS2? (haven't dug too much on the
@aural possibilities yet...) i am thinking is something like:
span.smiley@aural { ":)": Rose.read "Smiling face" }
or
span.gigle@aural { ":)": Rose.play "gigle.wav" }
Thanks,
David@
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