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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: May 5, 2015 9:22AM

First of all, I would check whether there are settings in NVDA (and JAWS) that may impact whether a superscript is presented as such or not. A good source in this regard is the NVDA mailing list.

If it turns out NVDA (and / or JAWS) do not present HTML superscripts as such the story is simple: it needs to be fixed. Without further research though it is not obvious whether the API on which NVDA (or JAWS) are relying is insufficient, or whether NVDA (or JAWS) as such need to fix something.


Olaf


On 5 May 2015, at 17:13, Mike Warner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> during testing yesterday, I noticed that NVDA reads a superscript number,
> coded using the html sup tag, as just part of the whole number. For
> example: 2<sup>2</sup> is read as twenty two. Google searches tell me that
> JAWS reads them the same way. Is that true?
>
> There are three html entities for the common superscript numbers (1, 2, and
> 3), but what to do with any others so they're read correctly?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
> > > >