Inspired Muck

• Posted: Aug 13th 2004, 13:06

The XHTML+Voice profile brings spoken interaction to standard web content by integrating the mature XHTML and XML-Events technologies with XML vocabularies developed as part of the W3C Speech Interface Framework. The profile includes voice modules that support speech synthesis, speech dialogs, command and control, and speech grammars. Voice handlers can be attached to XHTML elements and respond to specific DOM events, thereby reusing the event model familiar to web developers. Voice interaction features are integrated with XHTML and CSS and can consequently be used directly within XHTML content.

Source - XHTML+Voice Profile 1.2

A discussion on Anne’s weblog entitled Multimodal Opera Browser discusses Opera’s position on supporting this, before today, unknown specification. The application of this to my current projects may be a long distance away but I shall be taking it seriously. The idea that the implementation of the WISP project could become more accessible to the disabled would be fantastic. For now I will be sticking with the basic accessibility and multi-linguistics but I’m leaving a framework within to make room for further enhancements.