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Re: Screen Reader Reading Numbers in Alt Attribute

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 12, 2014 11:22AM

I second Jared's comment.
Screen reader handling of numbers is a verbosity setting controlled by
the user, so they can configure it any way they want to.
Screen readers will also read common html entities such as ® for
registered or ™ for traemark in alt text.
Cheers


On 11/12/14, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Write alternative text as you would if it were in plain text and let
> screen readers read it how they may.
>
> Jared
> > > >


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