Re: Negative numbers

Hi Jospeh,

If negative numbers are a concern just for you, then you can change  
your verbosity settings and set punctuation to "all"

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/voiceover/hear-punctuation-mchlp2703

Keep in mind, this will then read out a lot more information such as  
colons, full-stops etc, and you may find this becomes painful.

If this is for an application for other users and you are worried  
about the following:

- there are a fair amount of VoiceOver users who may be using the app
- you are concerned that not all VoiceOver users will have their  
verbosity punctuation set to "all"
- there are negative numbers that are important for these users to understand

In circumstances like this, you may wish to use a work around (or  
hack). A simple solution is to use an aria-label:

<span aria-label="minus 91">-91</span>

You can see this in action here:
https://jsfiddle.net/russmaxdesign/fhs8m6z1/

HTH
Russ

Quoting Joseph Yang <joesaiyang@gmail.com>:

> I'm having an issue with Voiceover not reading negative numbers. Apparently
> it is not reading the minus sign. Has anyone been able to find a work
> around for this? I've read that using parentheses was an option, but
> because I work in banking, I'm not sure if that will be a viable option for
> the stakeholders.



Thanks
Russ

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Received on Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:21:27 UTC