Probably because the things are made up of stuff like brackets and other such punctuation. The screen readers only read them correctly because people put them in the dictionaries.
On 25/01/2013, at 18:33, Traci <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering, why don't the braille displays show emoticons as words? > Voiceover reads them out, but the braille shows a bunch of dots 7's & 8's, or > at least that is what they look like. > > Braille me curious. ;) > Traci > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
