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Re: VoiceOver interpretation of numbers

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From: John Hicks
Date: Aug 8, 2014 6:41AM

Hello At the risk of just talking to myself about this (admittedly narrow)
state of affairs.... To get rid of the "units" interpretation of letters
like M, G, W, H, etc (iOS 7 interprets these letters as "metres" "grams"
"watts" and "hours" respectively) the style you need is "spell-out" .
"digits" alone won't cut it but style="speak : spell-out" ensures that the
letters are read as letters and not interpreted as units. This works fine
if you select the text, or arrive at it with the rotor , but if you read
the whole screen (or part thereof) using the two finger up or down gesture
.... the Units come back! This happens even if you assign the style to
the container itself (instead of to each item). More bizarreness then
.... John

Le 04/08/2014 14:47, John Hicks a écrit :
Back to this,
after a while
Thank you for the tips, I have tried some; there is still a
problem with the numbers, but I attribute it to bad coding.

However,
there seems to be no accounting for treatment of number final letters (they
are announced whatever the style)

V = Volts
W = Watts
G = Grams ...
etc etc

has anybody else seen .... or rather heard this?

John

Le
15/07/2014 16:02, Jonathan Avila a écrit :
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


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Paul J. Adam

Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:53 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
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

.address, .phone, .zip
{
speak: digits;
}
code {
speak: literal-punctuation;
}

Paul J. Adam

Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Jul 15, 2014, at 8:37 AM,
John Hicks 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....

--
John Hicks ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )
Ingénieur
Consultant en Accessibilité
Docteur en Sciences Cognitives


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