Testing how screen readers read phone numbers

Original number misread by VoiceOver

07000 121 022. Reads as "seven thousand   one hundred twenty one   twenty two".

Same number, without the spaces

07000121022. Reads as "seven billion   one hundred twenty one thousand   twenty two".

Number again, but with spans

07000 121 022. Reads as "zero, seven thousand, one, two, one zero, two, two".

Number with aural CSS property

07000 121 022. This version of the number includes aural CSS to speak the number in individual digits.

Testing was completed using Mac VoiceOver and Safari v2.0.4 on a Mac running OS 10.4.10. If you are using an aural reader different to this (or a different version) and experience something other than what is described, maybe you'll want to document that by including a comment on the descriptive post that accompanies this page.

Date created, Friday 9 November 2007.