All these are good ideas.  But if a web page lacks alt-tags, all the tricks
of tone, voice, beeps, bongs and such can not make sense of the mysterious
nature of untagged links.



At 02:32 PM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jim Vaglia - TRFN Volunteer wrote:
>
>> One of the advantages of IBM Home Page Reader is that it announces links
>> in a female voice while reading regular text in a male voice.
>>
>> With all this controversy on webpage design has it ever been considdered
>> to ask screenreading manufacturs to make their screenreaders change voices
>> when coming across pchanges in webpage layouts?
>>
>> The technology is hear today to prermit such access to webpages. Lets stop
>> putting the blame so much on webpage designers and expect more from
>> screenreader companies.
>> Jim
>>
>Or on the screen reader users.  Don't most of the screen reading packages
>allow you to have highlighted or specific color text read differently?
>
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