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From: Maren Child
Date: Sun, Oct 24 2004 7:59PM
Subject: special characters
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We have quite a lot of special characters in our web documents - en dashes,
em dashes, non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc. The em dashes
(and often the en dashes) have no spaces before and after them. When
converting superscript numbers or letters that are the reference to a
footnote, I put a space or a non-breaking space between the letter/number
and the word before it, so it won't be read out by a screen reader as a
single word. How do screen readers deal with special characters and unspaced
em dashes etc? I use the codes (eg –,  , &#8212, &#8209.)
Maren Child
WordsWorth Writing
From: Priti Rohra
Date: Mon, Oct 25 2004 12:46AM
Subject: Re: special characters
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The screen-reader will read all the special characters on a web page,
depending on the screen-reader settings set by an user.
Regards,
Priti...
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From: "maren"
To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
Sent: October 25, 2004 7:34 AM
Subject: [WebAIM] special characters
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> We have quite a lot of special characters in our web documents - en
dashes,
> em dashes, non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc. The em dashes
> (and often the en dashes) have no spaces before and after them. When
> converting superscript numbers or letters that are the reference to a
> footnote, I put a space or a non-breaking space between the letter/number
> and the word before it, so it won't be read out by a screen reader as a
> single word. How do screen readers deal with special characters and
unspaced
> em dashes etc? I use the codes (eg –, , &#8212, &#8209.)
> Maren Child
> WordsWorth Writing
>
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Date: Mon, Oct 25 2004 8:04PM
Subject: Re: special characters
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What about if you uses say & for & (instead of the ascii value)?
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:12:29 +0530, priti.rohra wrote:
>
> The screen-reader will read all the special characters on a web page,
> depending on the screen-reader settings set by an user.
>
> Regards,
> Priti...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "maren"
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
> Sent: October 25, 2004 7:34 AM
> Subject: [WebAIM] special characters
>
> >
> > We have quite a lot of special characters in our web documents - en
> dashes,
> > em dashes, non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc. The em dashes
> > (and often the en dashes) have no spaces before and after them. When
> > converting superscript numbers or letters that are the reference to a
> > footnote, I put a space or a non-breaking space between the letter/number
> > and the word before it, so it won't be read out by a screen reader as a
> > single word. How do screen readers deal with special characters and
> unspaced
> > em dashes etc? I use the codes (eg –, , &#8212, &#8209.)
> > Maren Child
> > WordsWorth Writing
> >
> > ----
> > To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
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