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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Fri, Feb 17 2017 9:04AM
Subject: [Athen] Lists in Word with Roman Numerals
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Unfortunately this is not possible. Generally, screen reader users rely on
the list indication to determine the presence of roman numerals. Roman
numeral indication is context dependent.

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Subject: [Athen] Lists in Word with Roman Numerals

Hi all. As far as I can tell, using the letters "I" and "VII" for Roman
numeral in a Word list/outline are not read correctly in screen readers. It
is possible to insert the actual Roman Numeral symbols into a Word document,
however seem to be impossible to format a list/outline using Roman Numeral
symbols. Is there a way around this?

Joseph

From: Harrison, Rita L
Date: Fri, Feb 17 2017 9:34AM
Subject: Re: [Athen] Lists in Word with Roman Numerals
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Why don't you just select the option for roman numerals under the Word menu? Assistive Technology can read a structured list using roman numerals.


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From: Stacey Rayos
Date: Fri, Feb 17 2017 9:35AM
Subject: Re: [Athen] Lists in Word with Roman Numerals
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Would this be a case where the unicode entries would help?

<abbr title="Roman numeral 3">&#x2162;</abbr>


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Pratik Patel < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Unfortunately this is not possible. Generally, screen reader users rely on
> the list indication to determine the presence of roman numerals. Roman
> numeral indication is context dependent.
>
> From: athen-list [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Sherman
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 11:00 AM
> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
> < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >; = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Subject: [Athen] Lists in Word with Roman Numerals
>
> Hi all. As far as I can tell, using the letters "I" and "VII" for Roman
> numeral in a Word list/outline are not read correctly in screen readers. It
> is possible to insert the actual Roman Numeral symbols into a Word
> document,
> however seem to be impossible to format a list/outline using Roman Numeral
> symbols. Is there a way around this?
>
> Joseph
>
> > > > >



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