aloha, david! recently, daniel weck of the DAISY consortium was appointed an editor of CSS3-speech module
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/ and a revised public working draft of CSS3-speech was issued on 19 april 2011 http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110419 unlike aural CSS, CSS-speech does not allow authors to exercise equivalent control over the aural palette as was "available" via CSS 2.0/2.1, but note that it is still possible to insert aural events using the "cue" properties, defined and described at: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/#cue-props which is something which i certainly hope mozilla will natively support -- support for CSS3-speech is a chicken-and-egg problem, and perhaps, in this case, mozilla can be the incubator... note, too, that CSS3-speech properties are slated to be supported in the next version of EPUB (EPUB 3.0): http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/ gregory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Accessibility, Internationalization, and Interoperability are not "features", "overlays" or "add-ons". Rather, they are core components of any architecture -- programmatic or otherwise. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, [email protected] Vice-Chair, WebMaster & Listmaster, Open Accessibility Workgroup http://a11y.org/ http://a11y/specs ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "L. David Baron" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:54:11 -0700 Subject: Removing parsing/storage of CSS 2.0 Aural properties > I plan to remove our code for parsing and storing the values of the > Aural CSS properties in CSS 2.0, for the following reasons: > > 1. We've never computed computed values of these properties or > supported them in getComputedStyle, so this code was not > particularly useful for anything. (If they had been supported in > getComputedStyle, they might have been useful for some assistive > technology.) > > 2. The property set is obsolete; current css3-speech drafts at > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-speech/ have a substantially different > property and value set than what we implement, which is based on > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/aural.html . > > If somebody were interested in using the computed values of these > properties for assistive technology tools, I would likely accept > a patch to add support for the css3-speech properties and values > (especially as the css3-speech draft stabilizes). However, > given that a patch to add computed style support for these > (obsolete) properties hasn't materialized in the past decade and > I haven't heard much interest expressed in using them, I think > it's best to remove this code, given that it is essentially > unused and not yet complete enough to be useful. > > I plan to do this removal in: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649119 > > -David > > -- > L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ > Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
