- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:29:29 -0400
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
aloha, ian! i agree with your proposal, save for your caveat: quote IMPORTANT: I propose that we delete "and other articulation characteristics" from checkpoint 4.11 since that makes it much harder to specify minimal requirements. unquote it wouldn't be much harder to specify minimal requirements for "other articulation characteristics" if you simply applied the same implementation example to that phrase that you used for volume -- the aural media rules of CSS2... the minimal requirements for "other articulation characteristics" should be those listed as "speech characteristics" [1] in chapter 19 of the CSS2 recommendation that aren't already highlighted by separate UAAG checkpoints -- namely: voice-family; stress; and richness the minimal requirements should also list equivalents for CSS2's "speak-properties" [2]: speak-punctuation and speak-number and for CSS2's "speaking-properties" [3] normal, none, and spell-out as well as the "pause" properties [4] pause-before and pause-after all of which are elemental aspects of a speech synthesis engine... cueing is pretty damn important, as well, but i think that i'd settle for the above as "minimal", although i'd prefer a self-voicing UA to also implement some sort of cue-before and cue-after configuration option, as well as a play-during configuration and control gregory. References [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html#voice-char-props [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html#speech-props [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html#speaking-props [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html#pause-props
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