Anyone had experience with negative currency numbers and how screen readers read them?
Seems to be that VoiceOver has the worst trouble with it, just reading "-$246.31" out as positive, ignoring the "-".
Not so great when it's supposed to be an account balance!
#Accessibility #screenReader
Sara Joy :happy_pepper: /
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2024-06-10 08:14:28
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