May 2003
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
10h 9m
English
For use by aural (speaking) browsers for the visually impaired, this property controls how punctuation is read. Punctuation may either be read aloud (e.g. "period") or represented by pauses in the reading of surrounding text.
Inherited: Yes
See also: Section B.100speak, Section B.101speak-header, Section B.102speak-numeral
This property accepts any of the following constants:
code: Punctuation is read aloud
none: Punctuation is implied by natural pauses
Initial value: none
CSS Version: 2
Not supported by any currently-available browser.
This example causes aural browsers to read aloud punctuation occurring in any element of class spokenpunct:
.spokenpunct { speak-punctuation: ...Read now
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