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Re: VoiceOver interpretation of numbers

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From: John Hicks
Date: Aug 8, 2014 6:47AM

Apologies for the bad formatting of previous message.

I should specify : this reading of letters as units is when the letters
are situated in the string final position, preceded by numbers, such as

342874758G

Which is the situation I am dealing with.


On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:41:12 +0200, John Hicks < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
> 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-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> [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
>
>
> www.Urbilog.fr -- Solutions Accessibles

--
Cordialement,

JOHN HICKS

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