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Re: The punctuation and typographic symbols that screen readers don't read

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jan 21, 2014 2:15PM

Just as an fyi they both read just the same to me smile

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
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2014-01-21 22:11, Paul Bohman wrote:

> Screen readers can do a lot better job at reading punctuation and
> typographic symbols. I decided to document what screen readers do and
> don't read. The results are not very encouraging.

This is important information about a sad state of affairs. Here I would
like to draw attention to just one detail in the testing:

> For example, if you write 1+1=2 (one plus one equals two), NVDA says
> only "one one two" at its default verbosity setting.

According to mathematical tradition, as well as standards including the
ISO 80000 series, there should be spacing around most operator symbols,
for example 1 + 1 = 2. This may or may not make a difference in reading,
but I think this is what should primarily be used in tests. Of course, it
might be interesting to know about reading 1+1=2, too.

Yucca


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