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Re: Screen Reader Reading Numbers in Alt Attribute

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From: Thad C
Date: Nov 12, 2014 1:49PM

Thanks guys. So...

twenty dollars (spelled out)

vs

$20

seems most appropriate from what I am understanding.

Thanks again for your quick response.

Thad

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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 &reg; for
> registered or &trade; 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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