Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Apps
  • Forum
  • Blog
    • Podcast
    • Guides
    • Hardware & Accessory Reviews
    • Bug Tracker
    • Developer Resources
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Forums
  3. App Development and Programming

iOS VoiceOver reading out decimal numbers wrong

By Jeff Wong, 8 December, 2015

Forum
App Development and Programming

Has anyone run into an issue where VoiceOver reads out decimal numbers literally?

For example, I have a label with 4.29 that gets read as "Four dot twenty-nine" when it would make more sense as "four point two nine".

More frustratingly, it seems to only do this on certain builds of our code.

I could have sworn that when I tried to make a sample app with some decimals on labels and it read them out with the "point".

Is this an Apple bug or is this an acceptable behavior for a label?

Options

  • Log in or register to post comments

Comments

Haven't heard point

By kevinchao89

7 years 3 months ago

I've tried with Alex and Samantha and hear dot in both. Think this is acceptable.
Of course, your use case may make more sense with decimal being called point. TTS have a funny way of determining how to say things sometimes.

More Like This

Decimals in Numbers (Forum Topic)
Braille Screen Input and Various Symbols? (Forum Topic)
Problem with Lire and Feedly (Forum Topic)
Which iPad to buy? (Forum Topic)
Reading indentation level (Forum Topic)
Accessing the app switcher with a hardware keyboard (Forum Topic)
keys on the calculator (Forum Topic)
Accessible Color Picker (Forum Topic)

Site Information

  • About
  • Club AppleVis
  • FAQ
  • Contact

Unless stated otherwise, all content is copyright AppleVis. All rights reserved. © 2023 | Accessibility | Terms | Privacy