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Re: Color for positive / negative value

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 13, 2024 2:46PM

As has been noted, adding the adjacent text is sufficient to meet the WCAG requirements.

Instead of the "-" hyphen character used in your email, or dash or similar, which are very likely to be ignored by screen readers, you should instead use the correct negative / minus sign symbol (or − in HTML) which is much more likely to be identified.

Jared