Web Authoring Strategies for Voice Browsers

A HWG position paper for a W3C workshop on voice browsers.

Bartlett, Kynn. HTML Writers Guild (1998). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Voice

What is Talklets?

Many people find it difficult to read from a computer screen - especially visually impaired users, and those with reading difficulties such as dyslexia. Many people print pages out to read them later, which isn't very efficient in terms of time (as well as paper consumption). Unsurprisingly, a number of 'read aloud' applications are emerging for web sites.

O'Gribin, Niall. Erigena (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Voice

XHTML Voice in Style

This article builds upon topics in the XHTML Voice by Example article. A knowledge of CSS is also assumed.

Axelsson, Jonny. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Voice

Getting to Know Voice

From a different world than the traditional browsing world comes a range of techniques that allows a developer to code for speech behaviours much easier than previously possible. Opera has early support for this. W3C is working on standards for combining speech and the ordinary graphical user interface.

Axelsson, Jonny. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Voice

How to Add Voice Interactivity to Your Site

This tutorial aims to help you add voice interactivity to your site, with minimal code changes and maximal browser compatibility. Along the way, examples will be provided, and at the end, you will be able to test a fully working, real World, voice-enabled site. This tutorial describes the use of a reusable VoiceXML form. Because the voice capability is included in the browser, you do not need to write your own speech recognition engine or speech synthesizer. This is a great advantage to you and to your Web application users.

Sucan, Mihai. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Voice