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Re: Accessibility of + and -

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Dec 7, 2016 8:55AM

I believe there are actually different unicode identifiers for minus and
negate. There are certainly specific UNICODE encodings for roman numerals
.

On 7 December 2016 at 03:12, Maxability Accessibility for all <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >