Web browsers for the blind: emacs-speak (T.V. Raman)
W3C sets up Web Accessibility Initiative
T.V. Raman proposes aural properties for W3C's Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS), standardized in CSS2
Dave Raggett and Microsoft's Or Ben-Natan collaborate of proposals for extensions to HTML for Voice Browsers (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice)
Motorola and AT&T devise VoxML, see www.voxml.com, a proprietary format for modelling speech dialogs as transition networks. Later team up with Lucent and IBM to launch VXML forum, see www.vxml.org
Dave Raggett runs W3C workshop on Voice Browsers, leading to the setting up of a W3C working group, chair is Prof Tomasz Imielinski of Rutgers University
W3C Voice Browser Working group - first face to face meeting May 1999
Two main factions: Call centers vs Web access