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Re: Forcing screen reader pronunciationofabbreviationimportant to a brand

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From: KellyFord
Date: Apr 23, 2018 9:27PM

Hi,

One thing to keep in mind, any solution that changes the text, such as inserting spaces, runs the risk of causing a poorer reading experience for users who are working with Braille. Those spaces will likely be present in the Braille text.

This could also cause confusion if a speech user wants to know the spelling of the text and starts reading by character. They will then perceive that the word is written with space characters and could mistakenly reproduce that error when they go to write the word themselves, if they want to refer to this same brand for example.

Kelly