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Re: Accessibility of + and -

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From: Maxability Accessibility for all
Date: Dec 7, 2016 1:12AM

While I second to set SR punctuation to all, I used to recommend using
ascii values instead of symbols themselves. I had a problem with negative
value read as hyphen and I have made a simple POC to see different options,
you can have a look at it.
http://www.maxability.co.in/demos/Negetive-value.html

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> You could insert an off-screen sentence at the top of an article
> saying (this text uses symols, adjust your screen reader punctuation
> settings).
> I am not a fan of content authors going overboard to address screen
> reader options.
> That is something the screen reader vendors and the users should work
> out for themselves.
> It is possible to propose an ARIA attribute that specifies punctuation
> levels. If author uses that, the screen readers could pick it up and
> adjust their punctuation setting accordingly for that page.
>
>
>
> On 12/6/16, Joshua Hori < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Code wise, couldn't you use MathJax to ensure the symbols are read aloud?
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> >