A.2. Aural Style Sheets

Sound is, in the view of some Web designers at least, a vastly under-utilized aspect of communication on the Internet. Most applications for aural presentation of Web content today revolve around people with hearing loss, but in the future, I anticipate that we will see far more use of spoken language, background music, and mixtures of voice and music to enliven some user experiences.

The CSS2 Recommendation from the W3C defines a whole range of sound (aural) presentation qualities that can be defined in CSS. Collectively, these make up the components of an aural style sheet.

Here's a snippet of an aural style sheet, borrowed directly from the W3C's Web page on aural style sheets:

 h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { voice-family: ...

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