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Re: Pipe characters and screenreaders

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From: David Andrews
Date: Dec 4, 2008 6:15AM

There is one other consideration. Some, if not many screen reader
users turn down the level of verbosity for punctuation for at least
some of the time. That is not every character is voiced. Unless you
are programming, doing editing etc., you may not need every character
voiced. So, if you are using them to convey something important,
they could be missed by some screen reader users.

Dave

At 01:05 AM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
>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
>