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How would you prefer for large numbers to be formatted in a terminal?
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I should have lead the poll with this tweet. I feel like some people would change their responses. The poll probably isn't very constructive since a majority of my followers would be English speakers who use commas.
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Also curious about the accessibility of terminals. For people that are blind, how is 123_456_789 and 123,456,789 handled? Some have suggested space separators but that feels far worse since they were be treated as separate words. Anybody know?
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@marcysutton@ryanflorence Do either of you know of any guides on terminal accessibility?Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Formatting a large number with commas makes the whole decimal discrepancy between countries that use a period and the ones using a comma for decimal separation even worse and makes reading for the latter ones harder - IMHO!
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@MarcoInEnglish could give some insights on using the terminal with assistive technology. - 1 more reply
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I suspect you'll get better screen reader results from spaces instead of underscores (which doesn't really exist as a number format outside of programming code). US English-localized screen readers should be able to handle the commas, but other locales might read it differently.
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@zersiax@bramduvigneau@leonarddr@megarush1024 as I think they deal with terminals quite regularly.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’ve just read this thread now so long after it was tweeted that you might not still be looking for answers. My answer is that for screen reader accessibility you shouldn’t mess with standard presentation of numbers, because it will blow any chance to make them read correctly.
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My personal preference would be no separators at all, because then I can’t be confused by commas or periods, and I can force my screen reader to read them in any way I like. Of course, that’s just me and my screen reader. It would probably be bad for others.
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