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From: Trafford, Logan
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:03AM
Subject: negative numbers in financial documents
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Quick question. What is the best method (or accepted method) of indicating negative numbers in financial reports (e.g. Word and/or web).
The standard accounting practice is to but brackets around negative values, but how is this interpreted through screen readers. Are the brackets ignored? Is there a better way??
thanks,
Logan Trafford
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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:06AM
Subject: Re: negative numbers in financial documents
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Trafford, Logan Wrote:
Quick question. What is the best method (or accepted method) of indicating
negative numbers in financial reports (e.g. Word and/or web).
The standard accounting practice is to but brackets around negative values,
but how is this interpreted through screen readers. Are the brackets
ignored? Is there a better way??
PP: Screen readers can identify punctuations including - (minus sign) or
brackets.
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From: Trafford, Logan
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:18AM
Subject: Re: negative numbers in financial documents
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Thanks Pratik.
I'm assuming then that if they are being ignored, there is a setting within the screen reader that needs to be adjusted? Unfortunately I'm asking this on behalf of someone in our finance department and I'm not able to witness what they're experiencing at the moment, but I believe they are using NVDA.
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Trafford, Logan Wrote:
Quick question. What is the best method (or accepted method) of indicating
negative numbers in financial reports (e.g. Word and/or web).
The standard accounting practice is to but brackets around negative values,
but how is this interpreted through screen readers. Are the brackets
ignored? Is there a better way??
PP: Screen readers can identify punctuations including - (minus sign) or
brackets.
Pratik Patel
Founder and CEO, EZFire
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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:24AM
Subject: Re: negative numbers in financial documents
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Trafford, Logan Wrote
Thanks Pratik.
I'm assuming then that if they are being ignored, there is a setting within
the screen reader that needs to be adjusted? Unfortunately I'm asking this
on behalf of someone in our finance department and I'm not able to witness
what they're experiencing at the moment, but I believe they are using NVDA.
PP: Yes. NVDA, like other screen readers, has a section in the preferences
menu that will allow the person to customize the pronunciation of different
punctuation. There are four levels of punctuations, none, some, most, and
all. One can define which punctuation is announced at each punctuation level
as well as how its pronounced.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Pratik