Investigate why math symbols are read out differently when in an aria-live region

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Investigate why math symbols are read out differently when in an aria-live region #128

Open terracoda opened 5 years ago

terracoda commented 5 years ago

In gravity force lab issue https://github.com/phetsims/gravity-force-lab/issues/131, we found that the HTML character entity for "times" × is read out differently by AT depending on whether the entity is directly in PDOM content or in an aria-live region.

We will need to investigate further how math content and symbls will be read in aria-live regions as we move forward with more sims that contain math content.

terracoda commented 5 years ago

Just adding a reference about how well screen readers read text. It's from 2014, but I don't thing much has changed. Good to review when we start looking at solutions for math.

Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen? Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols