Speak-Punctuation - Cascading Style Sheets Properties

speak-punctuation Support Key: [*CSS2\|CSS2.1*]	Other Aural Properties
	volume stress richness azimuth elevation voice-family	speak speak-numeral pitch pitch-range speech-rate play-during	pause pause-before pause-after cue cue-before cue-after
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Quick Statistics
Default Value:		none
Applicable Elements:		All
Inherit From Parent:		Yes
Applicable Media:		Aural
HTML Equivalent:		NA
Official Docs:		CSS2: Sect. 19.9, CSS2.1: App A.10

What is it?: This property specifies how punctuation characters are spoken.

Allowed Values
inherit
[CSS2|CSS2.1]: Type: Explicit; Description:
Explicitly sets the value of this property to that of the parent.
code
[CSS2|CSS2.1]: Type: Explicit; Description:
Punctuation is to be spoken literally.
none
[CSS2|CSS2.1]: Type: Explicit; Description:
Punctuation is not spoken, but is rendered naturally as pauses in the rest of the content rendering.

Example: Ext/Doc: .telephone { speak-punctuation: code; speak-numeral: digits }; In-Line: <p>The phone number is <em STYLE="speak-punctuation: code; speak-numeral: digits">555-1212</em></p>

Notes

Before its inclusion in CSS2, this property was first proposed in the W3C Working Draft "Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS)" (1/7/97, http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Speech/NOTE-ACSS)

Browser Peculiarities

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