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Re: What is accessible text for representing a time of day?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 28, 2017 4:53AM

One thing you could do is to write out the time range
9am to 6pm ratehr than 9am-6pm
I agree with Jennifer that you don't have to, it is up to the screen
reader vendor/users to code/understand commonly used phrases and words
correctly.
And, you are right, there is no semantic magic for doing this.



On 3/27/17, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Jennifer, thanks for the input. I was really only worried about figuring
> out pronunciation if I was missing some obvious, semantic way to do this.
> When I ask NVDA for the current time, for instance, it reads it just fine,
> so I figured I must be doing something wrong.
>
> Kevin: I'd love to go with military time, personally. It's just so much
> more straightforward. Pretty sure I won't convince the world anytime soon,
> though :)
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