Re: Thorny one - representing greek letters and formulae in an english page

I would suggest using character entities.  Results will vary, but many
screen reader/browser combinations can pronounce the Greek character names,
especially if you move through that portion of the text one character at a
time, and you have properly declared the charset of the HTML page.

At 03:51 PM 2/8/02 -0000, you wrote:
>     <>  My views are:   1) Font tags   Are wrong.    2) gifs with ALT
>text:   Do not scale, but better for screen readers and  older browsers  
><> with locale change to  greek     not sure about how most browsers will
>receive it.    4) Character  entities :   Probably purest way, probably
>inaccessible to  screen readers and older browsers     Does anybody have a
>view on this? or any decent resources I can  review?   Regards,   Steve   
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