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From: _mallory
Date: May 5, 2015 2:23PM

Orca does the same as well.

If it recognises a shorthand like "2nd" it'll say "second", but otherwise
whole numbers are read out. subs and sups are ignored as far as the SR is
concerned.

_mallory
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:13:16AM -0400, Mike Warner 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
> > > >