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From: chagnon
Date: Mar 15, 2019 12:59PM

Concurring with Birkir.

I think the worst method of all for accessibility with all technologies is the period. It might sometimes be voiced as "point," but frequently it's ignored and the phone number (202) 123-0987 is announced as 2,021,230,987. Comprehension is severely compromised, especially when zeros are in the phone number.

As a former magazine art director/graphic designer, don't let your designers get too artsy-fartsy with phone numbers. The key objective is to communicate information, not to win design awards.

—Bevi Chagnon

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