Name

speak

Synopsis

This determines how an element’s contents will be audibly rendered, or indeed if they will be rendered at all. The value spell-out is typically used for acronyms and abbreviations, such as W3C or CSS. If the value is none, then the element is skipped (it takes no time to be audibly rendered).

Values:

normal | none | spell-out | inherit

Initial value:

normal

Applies to:

all elements

Inherited:

yes

Computed value:

as specified

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