Re: [css3-lists] [css3-speech] Purpose of the module

Hello, please review this new section:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-speech/#lists

Regards, Daniel

On 19 May 2011, at 20:14, fantasai wrote:

> On 05/19/2011 11:29 AM, Belov, Charles wrote:
>>
>> Without commenting specifically on number styles such as -financial,
>> my take on the intended purpose of the Lists module is that it is
>> intended to do the following:
>>
>> - Marking content semantically as a list.  This would also allow
>> someone using a screen reader to skip over the list.
>>
>> - Distinguishing single list items from each other.
>
> This is not part of the Lists module. This is the job of the markup
> language. CSS does not define semantics, only rendering.
>
>> But if it is not suitable for the Lists module, then perhaps the  
>> Speech
>> module would need an property as to whether or not to read the list
>> sequence number, so that the listener would only hear "A. First item"
>> for<li>A. First item</li>.
>
> I believe this will be defined by the Speech module for CSS2.1 list
> styles. CSS3 Lists will then have to say how the new styles integrate
> with CSS Speech.
>
> ~fantasai
>

Daniel Weck
daniel.weck@gmail.com

Received on Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:03:44 UTC