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From: Don Mauck
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 3:53PM
Subject: IOS pronunciation issue
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Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 4:15PM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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Default pronunciation is determined by the screen reader, not what content creators or coders do.
Take it up with your particular manufacturer, such as Freedom Scientific and NVDA.
Depending upon whether you're coding an HTML website, creating a Word or PowerPoint document, or remediating a PDF, you can put expansion text on the USD with Actual Text to voice it as US Dollars.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:54 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] IOS pronunciation issue
Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
From: Don Mauck
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 4:20PM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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Assume that that's the same for IOS which was my question. I understand about NVDA JAWS and such. I just haven't found anything on the Apple Accessibility site regarding how to resolve this.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 4:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] IOS pronunciation issue
Default pronunciation is determined by the screen reader, not what content creators or coders do.
Take it up with your particular manufacturer, such as Freedom Scientific and NVDA.
Depending upon whether you're coding an HTML website, creating a Word or PowerPoint document, or remediating a PDF, you can put expansion text on the USD with Actual Text to voice it as US Dollars.
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From: WebAIM-Forum < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > On Behalf Of Don Mauck
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:54 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Subject: [WebAIM] IOS pronunciation issue
Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 5:26PM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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Hello,
I am not sure on this, but I believe that Safari at least supports Speech CSS so you might be able to do:
.usdSpan { spellout }
Documentation was found at:
https://css-tricks.com/lets-talk-speech-css/
I would be interested in knowing if this works.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On May 15, 2018, at 5:53 PM, Don Mauck < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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> Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
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From: Don Mauck
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 5:38PM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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Ah, didn't consider that. Good point indeed.
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From: Jonathan Cohn [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:27 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] IOS pronunciation issue
Hello,
I am not sure on this, but I believe that Safari at least supports Speech CSS so you might be able to do:
.usdSpan { spellout }
Documentation was found at:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__css-2Dtricks.com_lets-2Dtalk-2Dspeech-2Dcss_&d=DwIGaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=EQ0xAgqxGediPFS2iJyMwtaJACO0PE04qO0-xFG1duE&m=pcjZgOxWq25iQy5CyWDiQ1z5kjYl1OaWv_e62C9ZhnY&sëE1T6GE5pYvzV4GBd7PkKXJiMJkyD9H25YuR8XlnmA&e
I would be interested in knowing if this works.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On May 15, 2018, at 5:53 PM, Don Mauck < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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> Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Tue, May 15 2018 7:08PM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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The user can adjust this under settings for VoiceOver. There are options under the speech section for pronunciation.
Jonathan.
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> On May 15, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Don Mauck < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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> Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of any IOS device to change this internally.
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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Wed, May 16 2018 2:34AM
Subject: Re: IOS pronunciation issue
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Hello,
This is expected and preferred behavior.
There is an option to change pronunciations in the speech dictionary
though. Please look at:
https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1136.html
for more information.
Thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Don Mauck < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hello, can anyone on this list shed light on why a Web App on an IOS
> device cannot pronounce USD as "Us Dollar"? Right now the pronunciation
> gets treated as a word. I'm not sure of anyway to adjust the dictionary of
> any IOS device to change this internally.
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