18 July 2022

Accessibility

Accessibility details suggestions on how to improve the user experience with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver screen readers as follows:

  • Pronounce acronyms correctly.
  • Spell out words and announce individual digits in numbers.

Pronounce acronyms correctly

Add acronym pronunciations to screen readers to pronounce acronyms correctly as follows:

The pronunciation of acronyms is defined in the dictionary manager. To learn how add the acronym pronunciations to the dictionary manager, go to the section Abbreviations, acronyms, and phrases in the JAWS dictionary manager tutorial.

You must close the dictionary manager after you have saved the replacement words for JAWS to use the replacement words.

The table JAWS replacement words defines the acronyms, replacement values, and additional settings to enable correct pronunciation.

JAWS replacement words
Actual word Replacement word Case sensitive
ABS eh b s Select
AS eh s Select
ASCED ass ked Select
ATAR eh tar Select
ATAS eh tass Select
ATO eh t o Select
CAS cass Select
CECS keks Select
CHESSN chezun Select
EFTSL eftsull Select
HEP hep Select
I-CAS i cass Select
I-CECS i keks Select
StEME steem Select
TCSI taxi Select
UCAS u cass Select
USI u s i Select
VET vet Select

The pronunciation of acronyms is defined in the default dictionary. To learn how to add acronym pronunciations to the default dictionary, go to the section 12.2.1 Speech dictionaries in the NVDA user guide.

You must exit and re-open NVDA after you have saved the replacement values for NVDA to use the replacement values. If the default dictionary is open, NVDA does not use the replacement values.

The table NVDA replacement values defines the acronyms, replacement values, and additional settings to enable correct pronunciation.

NVDA replacement values
Pattern Replacement Case Type
ACCPEND ackpend on Whole word
ACCTRANS acktrans on Whole word
ADJPEND addjpend on Whole word
ADJTRANS addjtrans on Whole word
ANZSRC eh n z s r c on Whole word
AS eh s on Whole word
ASCED ass ked on Whole word
ASCL eh s c l on Whole word
ATAS eh tass on Whole word
AVETMISS a vet miss on Whole word
CAS cass on Whole word
CECS keks on Whole word
CRICOS cry coss on Whole word
FEE-HELP fee help on Whole word
HEP hep on Whole word
I-CAS i cass on Whole word
I-CECS i keks on Whole word
ISSP i s s p on Whole word
SACC s eh c c on Whole word
SIS siss on Whole word
StEME steem on Whole word
TAC tack on Whole word
TCSI taxi on Whole word
UCAS u cass on Whole word
UID u i d on Whole word
VET vet on Whole word

The pronunciation of acronyms is defined in the substitution values. To learn how to the correct pronunciation of acronyms to the substitution values, go to the section Accessibility Vision Spoken Content in the iPhone user guide.

The table VoiceOver substitution values defines the acronyms, substitution values, and additional settings to enable correct pronunciation.

VoiceOver substitution values
Phrase Substitution Ignore case
ANZSRC eh n z s r c Off
ASCL eh s c l Off
AS eh s Off
ASCED as ked Off
ATAR eh tar Off
ATAS eh tas Off
ATO eh t o Off
AVETMISS a vet miss Off
CECS keks Off
CHESSN chezun Off
EFTSL eftsul Off
GCSE g c s e Off
HEPCAT hep cat Off
I-CECS i keks Off
INVALIDTRANS invalid trans Off
ISSP i s s p Off
OS-HELP o s help Off
REJECTPEND reject pend Off
SA-HELP s eh help Off
TCSI taxi Off
UCAS u cas Off
USI u s i Off
VETAPPROVED vet approved Off
VETREJECTED vet rejected Off

Spell out words and numbers

Spell out words and numbers using keyboard shortcuts for the screen reader to announce individual characters. For example, if you want to know the letters in a word or the digits in a number.

Information on the keyboard shortcuts can be found as follows:

JAWS
Go to the section Desktop and laptop keystrokes For reading text in the JAWS keystrokes guide.
NVDA
Go to Section 5. Navigating with NVDA in the NVDA user guide.
VoiceOver
Go to the section Change your VoiceOver settings Set how much VoiceOver tells you in the iPhone user guide.