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Fractions guidance #145

Closed joolswood closed 7 years ago

joolswood commented 8 years ago

What do you need?

Guidance on writing fractions. Andrew confirms decimals are preferable (0.5 1.5). Need to consider 2/3, 3/4 and so on.

Which entry/section is this related to?

http://content-style-guide.apps.staging.digital.gov.au/az-indexes/n.html#numbers

joolswood commented 8 years ago

Libby to talk to Andrew

AndrewArch commented 8 years ago

I'll take on to investigate screen reader issues (if any) with the various alteratives

libbyv commented 8 years ago

Suggestion: We agree decimals for simple fractions eg 2.5, 0.5 etc.

AA to investigate best approach for two-thirds versus 2/3 with screen readers.

AndrewArch commented 7 years ago

Suggestion is to use percentage (eg nn%) where ever appropriate. Response from an experienced JAWS user ...

Response in _italics_ for each point/question.

for one-half - 1/2 (one slash two) or 0.5 _JAWS states ‘one half’ with or without subscript activated or zero point five for the decimal example_
for one-third - 1/3 (is it pronounced 1 / 3 or one third?) - as a decimal it would be 0.3333 repeating so no good as a decimal _JAWS states ‘one slash three’_
some others - 3/4, 1/4, 1/5 etc. _JAWS states ‘three slash four’, ‘one slash four’ and ‘one slash five’_
what is the safest way to represent these to be sure they are understood? _I would use whole words to describe the fraction i.e. one half, three quarters, one fifth etc. or, depending on context ‘up to 1/3  of respondents stated…..’ use the percentage 33%_

This works with 'say all’ or word by word.  I’m using JAWS 17 with intermediate level of verbosity and some punctuation.
joolswood commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/govau/content-guide/issues/48