Date: Dec. 14, 2000
Link: http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/xsl/audioxsl.html
Source Author or Organization: Christopher R. Maden, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., W3C XSL Working Group

This document proposes adding audio characteristics derived from Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) to the otherwise visual formatting objects in Exstensible Style Language (XSL).

The author argues XSL must offer "easy accessibility" to address one of the greatest threats to the W3C's accessibility effort; a perception by many Web designers that accessibility requires extra work on their part and/or requires lower quality designs for their larger audience.

A key accessibility component should be high quality audio stylesheets. This document lists, defines, and discusses the applicability of several audio characteristics or properties for use with Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 (CSS1), Cascading Style Sheets Level 2, and ACSS.