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Re: how to write Roman numerals please

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Jan 5, 2012 6:06AM

I believe that a blind person, like anyone else, can figure out that
"IV" is the Roman Numeral for 4. I've never run across a screen
reader that couldn't read character by character, if the user is confused.

It's very easy to figure out Roman numerals by context, don't you think?

To put my own spin on what Jared suggested already, if everyone tried
to accommodate every quirky pronunciation of each different screen
reader, they'd never get anything done.

It's *SO* important that people who care about accessibility on the
Web focus on what's really important, i.e. accessibility for as many
as possible, rather than weird screen reader pronunciations that
blind people are entirely used to dealing with.

Thanks for your continuing concern about this kind of thing, Angela,
but I'd focus on frying the bigger fish, if I were you.

Jennifer

At 03:22 PM 1/4/2012, you wrote:
>But Jared, if I use "IV" to mean Roman Numeral 4, it is typed on
>the keyboard with the letters "I" and "V". Isn't it read as that?
>Angela French
>
> >
> >Roman numerals are no more or less confusing to screen reader
> users than they
> >are for other users. There's no necessity to code them so they are read as
> >numbers in screen readers
> >
> >Jared
> >