- From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:34:02 -0800
- To: Christopher Atkinson <cwa@pipeline.com>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 06:46 PM 2/27/00 , Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: >but, with the state of today's technology, i still hear "George Two" and >"George Three", as JFW does interpret double capital eyes as "two", and >triple capital eyes as "three", but that's the extent of it's knowledge of >roman numerals... Just as a footnote, if someone really wanted Roman numerals spoken correctly it would be what the math books like to call a "trivial exercise" (i.e., conceptually easy but tedious) to define entries for most of them in the screen-reader's pronunciation dictionary. Thus "XIV" = "fourteen", "LXIII" = "sixty-three" etc. The system would break down though for single Roman numerals, since no screen reader alive can figure out if the I in "After Leopold I came to power" is a pronoun or a numeral. ... So the markup could be handy if implemented. Patrick Patrick J. Burke burke@ucla.edu http://www.dcp.ucla.edu/staff/patrick.htm University of California Los Angeles The Disabilities & Computing Program at the UCLA Office of Academic Computing Analyzing Usability Since 1994
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