Re: screen readers and punctuation

Does wrapping numbers in an HTML <data> element affect how screen readers voice punctuation?

For example:
<data value="2345.00">$2,345.00</data>

The data element seems like a useful hint that the contents aren't regular text, and punctuation may be important.

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Mark

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On 13/02/2019, 17:57, "Léonie Watson" <tink@tink.uk> wrote:

    This has some practical advice for writing content that works for screen 
    readers:
    https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/08/advice-for-creating-content-that-works-well-with-screen-readers/

    
    The short answer is that you can't write content that works with all 
    screen readers, so it's better not to try.
    
    It's also worth mentioning that the Deque article misses an important 
    point. When it says that screen readers do not announce certain symbols. 
    that is usually only the case when reading content in chunks (like 
    paragraphs or sentences).
    
    For example, a screen reader may not announce the dash in 5th - 10th 
    May, when reading this sentence as a whole, but it will when reading the 
    text in smaller chunks like one character at a time.
    
    What tends to happen, is that if a screen reader user senses something 
    doesn't quite make sense as they read it, they'll tend to look a little 
    more closely at it. That's when they find the dash.
    
    Where a screen reader doesn't speak an asterisk as a marker for a 
    required field, that can be mitigated in different ways - like using the 
    required attribute on the field in question. This is good practice in 
    any case of course.
    
    Léonie.
    
    
    On 13/02/2019 15:39, Michellanne Li wrote:
    > Hello all,
    > 
    > I just read this piece from Deque on how screen readers address 
    > punctuation: Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen? 
    > Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols 
    > <https://www.deque.com/blog/dont-screen-readers-read-whats-screen-part-1-punctuation-typographic-symbols/>. 
    > 
    > 
    > Since it was written in 2014, I am wondering if screen reader technology 
    > has since been updated to better read out important symbols.
    
    
    > 
    > Thanks!
    > 
    > Michellanne Li
    > (512) 718-2207
    > http://www.michellanne.com

    
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Received on Thursday, 14 February 2019 11:16:23 UTC