Re: [css3-lists] [css3-speech] Interaction between list-style-type and speak properties

On 04/27/2011 11:12 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:23 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>  wrote:
>> On 04/26/2011 08:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>> Reading the list marker shouldn't need to pay attention to the list
>>> style - that should be just a visual thing, I would think.  Screen
>>> readers should be able to read<ol>s without caring about what goes on
>>> in CSS.
>>
>> Determining whether it should be read as a bullet or a number matters,
>> though, and that's not an<ol>  vs.<ul>  thing. Also, alphabetic lists
>> are read out differently from numbered lists. This is also important
>> to reflect into speech.
>
> You're correct on the bullet vs number distinction.  That can't be
> completely captured, though - you can say that 'repeating' types are
> bullets, but 'non-repeating' may or may not be.  It'd probably
> sufficient to just read 'repeating' counter styles and strings used
> directly in list-style-type as bullets and everything else as numbers,
> though.
>
> It doesn't seem like the distinction between numeric and alphabetic is
> important.  They're just alternate ways of representing numbers.
> We've already made the point that legal documents, where the precise
> marker is important, should use inline text for their markers (which
> reminds me that I need to add the
> display:marker/list-style-type:inline feature).  In other documents,
> the fact that a list is presented as "A" instead of "1" is mostly
> irrelevant.  This is styling information, not semantic content.

Yes, it's styling rather than semantic. I'm not arguing semantics.
I'm arguing that if the document is styled with letters, then an
aural presentation of it in all likelihood wants to read those letters
rather than treating it as bullets (<ul>) or numbers (<ol>) depending
on the markup. Daniel's point is that this capability is not addressed
in either CSS3 Speech or CSS3 Lists.

~fantasai

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