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Re: Numbers and JAWS

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From: Darold Lindquist
Date: Nov 4, 2003 5:07AM

Todd,

My advice would be to leave the numbers as they are intended to be
displayed visually. Screen reader users can adjust the spoken format of
numbers from within JAWS or whatever screen reader to suit their individual
preferences. In JAWS, these selections can be found in the configuration
manager under text processing. Setting number processing to single digits
will provide the spoken sequence you are looking to achieve, but this may
not be the preferred format of the user. The speaking of the $ symbol can
also be toggled here. These settings can be applied as either a global
setting or differently for specific applications.

Darold

At 06:39 PM 11/3/2003, you wrote:

>Hi all,
> I'm a newbie to accessibility in HTML and I am currently helping a bank
>create a JAWS friendly site. I have a couple of questions I hope someone can
>answer.
> I am displaying an account number in a formatted behaviour, ie 1234 1234
>1234 1234 but I was hoping to get JAWS to read each digit as opposed to 4
>numbers. Does Anyone know of any tags, attributes or tricks to help with this?
>We are supporting JAWS 4.5 so CCS 2 audible styles are not a possible solution
>unfortunately.
> My second question is if there is any way to make a reader interperet
>currency figures such as $123.00 as "one hundered and twenty three dollars"
>instead of "dollar one hundered and twenty three"? Any assistance anyone could
>provide would be greatly appre