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Re: how to write Roman numerals please

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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Jan 5, 2012 7:33AM

How it would be read, by a screen reader depends on the screen reader, specific settings in the screen reader in some instances, and whether or not it is lower case, upper case, or mixed case.

In general, context gives us the clues we need to figure it out.

Dave



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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 5:23 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] how to write Roman numerals please

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

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>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
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>Jared
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