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Hi everyone, I'm on a project, and I've got some queries about #ScreenReaders and symbols. This will also be helpful for me in general.

1. When using a screen reader to read something like this:
... two white spheres (hydrogen) ...
will it read 'two white spheres open bracket hydrogen close bracket?

2. When reading H2O (with the 2 as subscript), will it read H subscript 2 O?

3. Finally, with δ (which I think is delta), accompanied by a superscript plus after it, will it simply read delta superscript plus sign?

Thank you!

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André Polykanine

That highly depends on user's particular settings. For instance, I'm a developer and I use very fast, but very robotic TTS with poor intonation, it suits my pace and habits. So for me, yes, it would read everything. Not sure about the subscripts though, probably not. but what you can do is to spend more time and process this by some tool that would interpret LaTex and output MathML or MathJax. That way at least some screen readers would interpret it as mathematical notation. #Accessibility
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Adrian Roselli, pH0

Last I checked, super/sub-script support was kinda crap. At least under default settings, settings with some modifications, and default voices.

What CSS you use can also impact it.

I filed three bugs in 2022 and they are still open.

Ref:
adrianroselli.com/2022/09/brie…

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Brief Note on Super- and Subscript Text

Thanks to a conversation on the A11y Slack, I ran desktop browsers and screen readers through a test to see how they announce content marked up as superscript and subscript.
Adrian Roselli
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