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Re: Numbers and JAWS

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From: James Gagnier
Date: Nov 4, 2003 7:32AM

Hi Todd:

Both the questions you ask are Jaws settings options. Users can have
numbers spoken as single digits, pairs or all one number. As far as having
the dollar sign be spoken, this is again a user setting in the JFW
configuration manager. Most users will have these settings set to their
preference.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Clarke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: Numbers and JAWS


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 appreciated.

Thanks

Todd.


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