Re: Minus sign - VoiceOver

I suppose I was wanting to see if it extended to Mobile as well.  It may only be a general desktop issue.  

All the best 

Alistair

On 17 Nov 2015, at 16:02, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> On 17/11/2015 15:50, Alistair Garrison wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> My last question for the day.  The version of VoiceOver on the Mac (desktop) that I'm using does not seem to announce a minus sign in the following context:
>> 
>> Balance -$90
>> 
>> This reads as "balance 90 dollars", rather than "balance minus 90 dollars".  Which is a of course critical in this context.
>> 
>> Some people suggest that the unicode minus sign (U+2212) must be used.
>> 
>> I've done some testing with TalkBack and VoiceOver on mobile, and it seems to work as expected. But, the question is has anyone come across a similar issue on any of the mobile platforms you are able to test on?
> 
> This is a general accessibility / AT issue, not specifically about mobile though, right? As in: it would not make sense for the "mobile" extension to specifically call this out as a problem (and relating techniques), as it's not exclusive to this scenario?
> 
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