Questions concerning current support for aural CSS have come up on Accessify Forum and a couple of other places recently, so I decided to collect my knowledge of aural CSS into a single resource to share with all you lovely people.
After some discussion on the GAWDS mailing list at the end of September, I ran some tests to see whether or not there was scope for using aural CSS to control how a screen reader says different types of abbreviation. In turn, this involved determining the level of support for aural CSS properties in current software. The tests failed in JAWS and a bit of research that followed uncovered various suggestions that there is very little support out there.
So, expanding on and supplementing my notes from those tests, I have written up a page covering my knowledge of aural CSS for anyone that is interested. Perhaps having this information in one place will be useful to people:
Aural CSS: Support for CSS 2 Aural Style Sheets / CSS 3 Speech Module
If you find any of the information to be incomplete or inaccurate, please let me know so that I can update the page.
Comment 1
I anxious for the results of the rest of the testing. I’m wondering if you’d be willing to post the markup used in the examples, Jon, to make it easier to see what’s being tested exactly?
Mike Cherim, 23 November 2006 at 0705