From: Jonathan Bryce 
Subject: Re: ONS launches personal inflation rate calculator
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:40:57 +0000

Tim wrote:

> When a Text/Speech system doesn't work with a particular
> website, that just means that the two pieces of software
> are not compatible with each other.  There are thus two
> ways to get it to work - either change the website or
> change the Text/Speech system.  Your comments seem to
> ignore the second possibility - is there any reason for this?

If the website complied with the W3C accessibility guidelines, there would
presumably be no need to change the software.

When you have text displayed as graphics, which is the case here, it is very
difficult for text/speech systems to interpret it.