Normally a speech friendly web site refers to one designed specifically for blind access that has been extracted of the visual formatting and graphical nature used by most modern web pages to attract visitors. Hence, in speech friendly pages, text cannot be allowed to line wrap in side by side columns. This would cause sections of each column to be read as one line of gibberish. Here are some of the guidelines used in our page designs. Many popular browsers were tested.
Frequent punctuation is used to force screen reader to pause between thoughts.
We were able to use a reasonable amount of visual formatting by carefully testing pages to eliminate columns that line wrap. Only graphics with short download times are used. Alternate text is supplied for each graphics in case they are turned off by the browser. Jump controls are easily located within each page. Long pages have a text browser style index at the top of the page in addition to a speed button bar for modern proactive screen access.