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Re: weirdness with NVDA reading multidecimal numbers

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From: James Nurthen
Date: May 11, 2021 1:07PM

I think this is often the TTS engines not the screen readers
Try pasting "Did you see the info in 1.4.10 (meaning section 1, subsection
4,
subsubsection 10).
Two scrollbars will fail 1.4.10" into Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine in 119
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On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 9:29 AM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> > Would it benefit anyone if they removed the heuristic entirely and just
> read the numbers and dots?
>
> I think it would be beneficial to have an option to turn off the
> heuristic. Some people might want to hear the "raw" data and they'll use
> the context around it to determine how to interpret the number.
>
> The info was sent on 1.4.10 (meaning January 4th, 2010, if using US date
> format. Does NVDA say "April 1st" if your locale is Europe?).
> Did you see the info in 1.4.10 (meaning section 1, subsection 4,
> subsubsection 10).
> Two scrollbars will fail 1.4.10
>
> I'd like the option to always hear "one dot four dot ten" and then I'll
> figure out what that means from the context.
> > > > >