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RE: Screen readers and telephone numbers

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From: Dave Ferrick
Date: Mar 3, 2003 9:18AM

A stab in the dark, but how about having each number in an <li> and making
the list inline through the properties:

ul, li {
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}


There may be some browser variants on what to id (you may need to add the
style to a containing <p> first) but with some effort, you can probably get
it to work across all platforms.

Dave Ferrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lloyd (Accessify.com) [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:39 AM
To: webaim
Subject: Screen readers and telephone numbers


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"!

Would appreciate your comments on this.

Regards



====Ian Lloyd
Accessify - http://www.accessify.com/
Who am i? - http://www.webstandards.org/about/bios/illoyd.html

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