- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:41:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I think this is basically untrue. There is a browser that has a partial implementation - emacspeak. It is free, but runs on Unix systems - I don't know if it is available for Windows (the speech drivers for Windows-based free speech synthesisers are probably the real problem). And there are a few bugs in it. But unlike what Dave says, it is useful to have a browser that does this because emacspeak allows the user to apply their own style sheets (in CSS or XSLT). I have only asked one regular user of emacspeak, and he is happy to continue with the built in default user style sheet in most cases (he specialises it for a few things that he does a lot). Cheers Charles McCN On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, David Woolley wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a speech reading (TTS) browser that supports CSS2's = >> aural properties, (ideally free to download, and Windows 98 compatible = >> on a PC platform)? > >I don't think one exists. It would be of very little use in the real world. > >There are two purposes for AT: > >1) to allow the user to access real world web sites, which are never > authored for aural style sheets; >2) to allow their employers to meet disability employment legislation > with as little change to their intranet as possible. > >Particularly in meeting (1) the only practical solution is to use >the market leader browser to do most of the work. > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe ------------ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia fax(fr): +33 4 92 38 78 22 W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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