- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:39:06 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, At 15:33 15/09/2007, Steven Faulkner wrote: >Using window eyes 5.5 with IE7 > >the results are similar to jaws and voiceover: >"it just reads the >superscripts and subscripts as seperated blocks with no particular >disctinction or announcement of how they differ." > >I had a look at the various settings in JAWS/Window Eyes to see if I >could get them to announce the sub/superscript differently, to no avail. I have updated the test page at <http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h with test results from Joshue O'Connor, Sailesh Panchang, Charles McCathieNevile and Steve Faulkner. I will probably get some feedback from Linux users later this week. Hopefully, I will also get results from people using HAL, IBM Home Page Reader and other AT. Best regards, Christophe >On 13/09/2007, Christophe Strobbe ><<mailto:christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> >wrote: > >Hi, > >I recently read in a report on accessibility of mathematics and >science that screen readers can't tell the difference between sub and >sup in HTML, so a<sup>n</sup> and a<sub>n</sub> are both rendered the >same on a Braille display, namely as "an". > >I would like to collect some more data on the support of sub and sup >by screen readers and talking browsers and I have put together a >small test page for this purpose: < ><http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>. The >page contains five examples of superscript and subscript and a few >combinations of these. > >With Fire Vox, the code samples given above are read as an emphatic >"an". The output for the other expressions is also misleading. I >would appreciate it if users of screen readers and talking browsers >could tell me what their systems output for each of the five >examples. I will then add the test results to the test page. > >Best regards, >Christophe > >-- >with regards > >Steve Faulkner >Technical Director - TPG Europe >Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium > ><http://www.paciellogroup.com>www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org >Web Accessibility Toolbar - ><http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html > -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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