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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 8, 2011 7:54AM

Hi Andrew

There is a pattern recognition capability, at least in the higher
versions of Jaws, and you can specify rules for how patterns are
pronounced (I am 99% sure, I use a braille display so I tend not to
use it much).
It depends on the version and the screen reader you have, whether and
how they pronounced different things such as phone numbers.
I have not come across a screen reader yet that pronounced dd/mm/yyyy
or mm/dd/yyyy distinctly enough.
But, like you said, may be this is actually one for the screen reader
manufacturers, since it is common practice and this format can hardly
be confused with anything else (the chances of dd/mm/yyyy being
anything other than a date template or placeholder are remote).
I'll jot this down and suggest it to the SR representatives at CSUN.
Thanks
-B

On 2/8/11, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Birkir,
> This is an interesting problem - JAWS does allow you to configure the
> reading for repeated letters, but this makes reading tedious in other ways
> (e.g. when someone puts a line of periods or dashes as part of their email
> sig). The default setting also means that if my phone number is
> 123-456-0000 that you won't hear it correctly, won't it?
>
> I wonder whether screen reader vendors have considered parsing the text and
> analyzing whether there is a phone number or a common date identifier. They
> should - I doubt that many people will stop using mm/dd/yyyy since it is
> short, and also avoids confusion for people who might enter the date as
> dd/mm/yyyy....
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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