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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Nov 17, 2010 9:57AM

One of our authors who has tested Word documents in JAWS 9 has doscovered that the "greater than or equal to" symbol (Unicode character 2265) is announced as "greater than."

In some cases this might be a minor annoyance, but the difference is important in documents that tell people how to comply with environmental regulations. Is there a good solution to this problem?

If not, we're thinking of just replacing the character with an inline graphic of the same size with appropriate alt text. Thoughts?

And is this just a JAWS thing, or do other screen readers do the same?

Cliff


Cliff Tyllick
Usability assessment coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-4516
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