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== Accessible symbols ==
Wikipedia previously provided templates that generated images with alt text for symbols not read by screen readers.<ref>{{cite web | last = Bohman | first = Paul | date=20 January 2014 | title = Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen? Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols | url = https://www.deque.com/blog/dont-screen-readers-read-whats-screen-part-1-punctuation-typographic-symbols/}}</ref>

As of 2023,<ref>{{cite web| title = How screen readers read special characters: an update |date= 17 March 2023 | last = Ragas | first = Sophie | url = https://www.elevenways.be/en/articles/screenreaders-special-characters}}</ref> the symbols in the table below will be read in the default configuration of all three major screen readers ([[JAWS (screen reader)|JAWS]], Apple's [[VoiceOver]] and [[NonVisual Desktop Access|NVDA]]).

Depending on user-configured verbosity settings, a reader may hear additional characters read aloud or fewer typographic or punctuation characters read aloud.<ref>{{cite web | title=How Screen Readers Make Digital Content Accessible | url=https://www.audioeye.com/post/what-is-a-screen-reader/ | author=AudioEye |date=14 September 2013}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Accessible symbols for tables
! scope="col" |Symbol
! scope="col" |Pronounced as
! scope="col" |HTML entity
! scope="col" |Template name
|-
| {{asterisk}}
|"star" or "asterisk"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>&ast;</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|asterisk}}
|-
| {{dagger}}
|"dagger" or "single dagger"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>&dagger;</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|dagger}}
|-
| {{double-dagger}}
|"double dagger"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>&Dagger;</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|double-dagger}}
|-
| {{number sign}}
|"number" or "hash tag"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>&num;</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|number sign}} or {{t|hash-tag}}
|-
| °
|"degree" or "degrees"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>°</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|degree}}
|-
| {{arrow}}
|"right arrow" or "rightwards arrow"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>→</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|arrow}}
|-
| {{down-arrow}}
|"down arrow" or "downwards arrow"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>↓</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|down-arrow}}
|-
| ←
|"left arrow" or "leftwards arrow"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>←</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|left-arrow}}
|-
| {{up-arrow}}
|"up arrow" or "upwards arrow"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>↑</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|up-arrow}}
|-
| {{prime}}
|"prime"
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline>′</syntaxhighlight>
|{{t|prime}}
|}

=== Notes ===
<references></references>

<noinclude>
{{Documentation|content=
This is shared documentation for templates which insert single characters that are read aloud by "most" [[screen reader]]s.
}}
[[Category:Documentation see also templates|Symbols]]
</noinclude>

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