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From: McGarvey, Paul
Date: Dec 6, 2016 7:00AM

Is anyone able to offer any thoughts on the accessibility of symbols/characters such as &, *, +, - and so on? I know from visiting the Digital Accessibility Centre in Neath and speaking to testers there that a lot of people who use screenreaders "turn the punctuation off" and thus would miss a crucial character in a sentence like "exports for this quarter were -0.2". However, want to know more about this for looking for any blogs/articles/guidance anyone could provide to build on this anecdotal evidence.

Paul McGarvey
Senior Content Editor/Golygydd Cynnwys Uwch
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