NSoiffer
What should be said for × and · in "LiteralSpeak" and character navigation mode?
There are many ways to speak these. Most come with some semantic baggage.
· is probably easiest: perhaps "center dot"
× can be "times", "cross", "cross product", "by". Something like "cross sign" seems too wordy.
There are other symbols that need a literal meaning, but this is a starting point and maybe some convention can be established.
Thoughts?
One disadvantage of "times" for the × symbol is its lack of specificity; listeners could imagine a dot, a star/asterisk, or an X-shaped cross.
Though "times" is how NVDA verbalizes the Unicode symbol.
FYI: the Unicode name for the symbol is "Multiplication Sign". I don't that is a great choice: it doubt everyone will think of the same symbol and the name is pretty long. But I suspect it is a little less ambiguous than "times".
"Multiplication"is very verbose. My maths knowledge is much less than others here, but "times"means multiply to me. Could abbreviate to "mult", but people would need to know what it meant.
Andrew
I'm currently leaning towards "cross". "cross sign" is less semantic, but rather long. I'm still looking for better ideas...