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Re: Pipe characters and screenreaders

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From: Peter Krantz
Date: Dec 4, 2008 12:05AM

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Dean Hamack < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what if anything does a screenreader speak when it
> encounters a pipe (|) character?

Jaws (at least in older versions) outputs "Vertical bar". For some
other characters see/listen here:

http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2004/title-text-separators/

(That article is old by now, but most characters should be output in
the same way).

Regards,

Peter