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Re: VoiceOver interpretation of numbers

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 15, 2014 8:02AM

> Would be great of other screen readers supported it!

It also would be great if mobile browsers allowed users to specify custom
stylesheets like this.

Jonathan

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] VoiceOver interpretation of numbers

This works to control verbosity for iOS only. Would be great of other
screen readers supported it!

http://pauljadam.com/demos/css3speech.html

CSS Speech Module

W3C Candidate Recommendation 20 March 2012

CSS Code

<style>
.address, .phone, .zip {
speak: digits;
}
code {
speak: literal-punctuation;
}
</style>


Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Jul 15, 2014, at 8:37 AM, John Hicks < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Working with Voiceover on an iPad mini. Long numbers without commas
> (these are actually ID numbers) are read correctly, that is
>
> 234543123 is read "two three four five four three one two three"
>
> But if there happens to be a letter in the final position (as happens to
be the case in the domain I am using voiceover in) :
>
> 234543123G .... sunddenly becomes "two hundred thirty four million, five
hundred forty three thousand one hundred twenty three grams"
>
> I can not find a way to turn of this "feature"!
>
> does anyone have an idea? I have scoured the parameters and spent time
searching in the forums and userguides....
>
>
>
> --
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> Ingénieur Consultant en Accessibilité
> Docteur en Sciences Cognitives
>
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