Hi,
I use the Fidelity app on my iPhone relatively often to manage some financial matters. That said, on the account screen I rarely read my actual account numbers digit by digit. However today I was filling out a form and needed to copy the account number so started to read the number character by character. That is when I made an interesting discovery. Fidelity appears to have constructed the account numbers for accessibility purposes with words instead of digits. For example if my account number is 123456, what Fidelity actually puts in place are the words one, two, three, four, five and six separated by spaces for the account number. So if you start reading by character, you are stepping through letters of each word, not the digits. I suspect this was done to not have the account numbers spoken as a long complex number when using general item navigation to next item. If you simply read with the VoiceOver default, the result is that the account number is spoken as separate digits i.e. one next item gesture would read one, two, three, four, five, six. If digits were used, VoiceOver would try and read the number as one hundred twenty three thousand four hundred fifty six. This would be even more confusing because immediately after the account number is the balance. So I'm curious how people feel about this choice by Fidelity? For the general case, they appear to have chosen something that sounds fine but clearly if you read by character or braille is less than ideal. If you are a user of the Fidelity app, you can experience this by picking the account tab, then stepping through the details of any account listed on that screen. Kelly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
