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RE: Screen readers and telephone numbers

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Mar 3, 2003 8:58AM

What about preceeding them with:

<span style="display: none">Phone number</span>705-670-5608

> What is the best way to mark up telephone numbers in
> web pages to aid screen readers pronounce them
> correctly?
>
> Ideally, we don't really want a six-digit number
> verbalised as "Three hundred and forty eight thousand,
> two hundred and ninety one"!


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