Comment by ejdyksen

Last I checked, aural stylesheets aren't broadly supported.

You'd be much better off using ARIA (which has pretty broad support from browser vendors and assistive technology vendors):

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This keeps assistive technologies from rendering the text (not just screen readers, but Braille displays, etc).

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/