Re: Minus sign - VoiceOver

I think most mainstream desktop screen readers will be ok with the minus
sign... so in that context it copuld be a bug on mobile screen readers
currently

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alistair Garrison <
alistair.j.garrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > P
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