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:
JAWS
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.
| Actual word | Replacement word | Case sensitive |
|---|---|---|
| AS | eh s | Select |
| CAS | cass | Select |
| UCAS | u cass | Select |
NVDA
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.
| Pattern | Replacement | Case | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| AS | eh s | on | Whole word |
| CAS | cass | on | Whole word |
| UCAS | u cass | on | Whole word |
VoiceOver
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 and then Vision and then Spoken Content in the iPhone user guide.
The table VoiceOver substitution values defines the acronyms, substitution values, and additional settings to enable correct pronunciation.
| Phrase | Substitution | Ignore case |
|---|---|---|
| AS | eh s | Off |
| GCSE | g c s e | Off |
| UCAS | u cas | 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 and then 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 and then Set how much VoiceOver tells you in the iPhone user guide.