1.9 Problems with W3C / Emacspeak

Don’t use Shortcuts of Empty Elements

The W3C browser is getting confused by the slash character, and takes the closing delimiter ‘+>+ for a content. So use, for instance, <br></br> instead of \verb�br /�+.

Html-Speech Rate

Resets to default whenever a web page is reset. The default is defined in dtk-speak.el, line 164 (~/emacspeak-22.0/lisp/dtk-speak.el).

Named Property Values not Recognized

The ‘loud’ and ‘medium’ properties are not supported for volume. (Wrong type argument: integerp, medium)

<..loud..>

 7

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<..x-loud..>

 9

-_-_-

<..medium..>

 5

-_-_-

See end of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/aural.htm. We provide values also for some unsupported attribute, with the expectation that at some point they’ll be supported.

Delimiters

In equation 3, the left parenthsis does not get spoken (The parentheses around the product: “( product under script j = 1 over script n end scripts x circumflex subscript j baseline )”. They should be spoken automatically by emacspeak, but the problem is that the punctuation mode for HTML is hardcoded to “some”, which means that not all punctuation codes will be spoken. Convert ( and ) into “left parenthesis” (or “enlarged left parenthesis”) and “right parenthesis” (or “enlarged right parenthesis”)