Vicker's Coding Kitchen » ACSS http://vicker.cubeforge.net/blog Hong Kong Adobe Flash platform developer (Flex, AIR and Flash) Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:27:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) http://vicker.cubeforge.net/blog/2005/11/23/aural-cascading-style-sheets-acss/ http://vicker.cubeforge.net/blog/2005/11/23/aural-cascading-style-sheets-acss/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:22:14 +0000 Vicker http://vicker.cubeforge.net/blog/?p=243
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • The Form Assembly
  • Alternate Style Sheets
    • ]]>     Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is widely used when developing a web page. It can be used in both layout and styling. However it is meaningless for the blinds. So are there any styles for the blinds?

    Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) is the answer. Actually ACSS is not a new technology. It can be viewed as an add-on to the original CSS. The following are the commands supported by ACSS.

    voice-family
    speech-rate
    pitch
    pitch-range
    stress
    richness

    By means of these commands, the speech produced by the disables assisting browsers like JAWS that I previously mentioned can be “styled”.

    For example the following will make the browser reading the text in a woman high pitch voice.

    Phantom of the Opera. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr~~~~

    References:

    ACSS: Aural Style Sheets. [Online]. Burns, J. Available: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3470211

    Related posts:

    1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
    2. The Form Assembly
    3. Alternate Style Sheets

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