The screen readers, at least JAWS, does read them.
CL
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <johnmill79@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fractions in bookshare files for Braille
readers
Neat description on how to make those symbols. I never knew that. My
screen-reader does read them though, even in say-all mode. I suppose that
just varies.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fractions in bookshare files for Braille
readers
> Hi Pam!
>
> Thank you for caring so much about how it reads. The fraction symbols of
> ½ and ¼ don't read well for speech users either. If I arrow over them,
> they are spoken, but in normal reading, they are ignored by my screen
> reader.
>
> Just so you know, here is how I made those symbols.
>
> Alt-171: one-half: ½
>
> Alt-172: One-quarter: ¼
>
> That means that you need to have your NumLock key turned on and then you
> hold down the alt key as you type the three numbers and then let up.
>
> Everyone should turn the fraction symbols off in Word so that we will get
> the plain 1/2 and 1/4 which read perfectly. People either don't know they
> should turn it off or don't realize it's on by default. If it's on, when
> the Word user types 1/2 or 1/4, they will get the symbols instead .
>
> Debby
>
> At 08:12 PM 6/19/2010, Pamela Hoffard wrote
>>Hey all,
>>
>>I'm coming across a bunch of fractions for recipes in the book that I'm
>>proofing. For Braille readers, is the 1 / 2 format better than the symbol
>>1 over 2 in one individual space (sorry I can't make this symbol in
>>e-mail). Any preference?
>>
>>Thanks for your thoughts,
>>
>>Pam
>
>
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