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Re: Proper Unicode or html entity for negative sign

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From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Mar 14, 2023 11:58AM

I just tried the Unicode math symbol −
Jaws speaks the following as "minus 100."
−100.

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Proper Unicode or html entity for negative sign

If you have access to a refreshable braille device, test it there too. I had a similar issue but can't remember if it was a negative number or a degree symbol. Whichever one it was, while it visually looked correct, when reading the character with braille it wasn't the right character.
Unfortunately, I don't recall what we ended up using that read correctly with braille, announced correctly with the screen reader, and visually looked correct. I only remember that I'm glad we had someone that could read braille and pointed out we were using the wrong character.