These are just a few things that I looked up about VoiceOver that I do not want to forget. In order to find them again I figured I might as well post them here!
Speaking Numbers
VoiceOver has a setting to indicate if numbers should be spoken as words or digits. This is a bit hard to find IMHO.
- Open System Preferences
- Select Accessibility
- Select VoiceOver
- Select the Open VoiceOver Utility button
- Select Verbosity
- Navigate to the Text tab
- Navigate to Numbers
- Select digits or words
With digits selected, VoiceOver will speak the individual digits of a number. For example, 15 is spoken as, “one five”. With words selected, VoiceOver will speak the word for the number. Thus, 15 is, “fifteen”.
Speaking Large Numbers
I also noticed that for large, unformatted numbers that were inserted via an aria-label attribute, VoiceOver always spoke digits no matter what the System Preference setting. However if I formatted the numbers with commas (for United States locales), the word version of the number was spoken. An aria-label=”2158194″ was spoken as, “two one five eight one nine four.” While aria-label=”2,158,194,” was spoken as, “two million, one hundred fifty eight thousand and one hundred and ninety four”.
I suspect someone listening to this post with VoiceOver might have some difficulty following my explanations since how the examples are spoken will depend upon their system preferences for numbers.
RT @becka11y: VoiceOver Tidbits: A few things that I looked up about VoiceOver that I do not want to forget.. http://t.co/fvJqLbwXWy
You can reach these settings by pressing ctrl-opt-v