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Re: does datepicker have to be accessible

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From: Terrill Bennett
Date: Feb 8, 2011 9:21AM

AWK said:

"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...."
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Some of how data is read is left to your choice of what voice and/or
synthesizer you use with your screen reader. I have recorded NVDA
using the default eSpeak (Max) vs. the SAPI 5 with both NaturalVoice
(Crystal) and Microsoft (Mike). There are very notable differences!

eSpeak Max doesn't do great job. Crystal does nicely. Mike does ok,
if he just didn't read the MM in "MM DD YY" as "millimeters!" Mike
even says "area code" in both phone numbers.

No other settings were changed other than switching synthesizers and
voices. Here are my recordings:

http://bennett1.org/webAim/datephone/

-- terrill --