Re: [orca-list] Subscripts and Superscripts.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I believe the problem is that right now the text is not exposed using 
the right accessibility role, but by text attribute. As a result, I 
would need to have Orca check all text -- or at least all numbers -- 
just in case there's a subscript or superscript there. I can add that to 
my todo list, but if the browsers exposed these things using the 
superscript and subscript accessibility roles, it would be helpful.

--joanie

On 6/10/20 12:55, Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> Okay, this is a long standing issue that I feel kind of stupid for
> never asking about before, but whenever I encounter superscripts and
> subscripts on webpages, most noteably when they are used to represent
> exponents and number bases, Orca treats the subscripted or
> superscripted digits as normal digits. This leads to situations such
> as 102 with the 2 superscripted being read as one hundred and two
> instead of ten squared and 1112 with the 2 subscripted being read as
> one thousand, twelve instead of one hundred eleven base two.
>
> I don't know if there's anyway Orca could possibly tell if a digit is
> sub or superscripted and adjust it's reading of numeric strings
> appropriately, but I figure it couldn't hurt to ask.
>
> I was reading:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repdigit
>
> when I was reminded of this issue, but just about any math or science
> Wikipedia article involving exponents, different number bases, or
> scientific notation will se examples of this.
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