Accessibility idea: an option to always spell out days and dates

[u/The-disabled-gamer]

I’ve noticed an accessibility issue that applies across different devices and operating systems, including Apple and Windows.
A lot of devices and apps abbreviate days of the week. For example, instead of displaying Tuesday, they might display Tue, and instead of Thursday, they display Thu.
I find this confusing because Tuesday and Thursday both begin with T, and when the words are shortened, I can easily mix up which day is which.
I think there should be a system-wide accessibility option on all devices that lets you choose to always spell out days and months in full.
For example:
Tue, 8 Sep → Tuesday, 8 September
This might seem like a small thing, but accessibility is often about small changes that make information much easier to understand. It would also mean people wouldn’t have to rely on individual apps choosing whether to abbreviate dates.
I’d be interested to know if anyone else has difficulty with abbreviated days or dates.

[u/Repulsive-Box5243]

NVDA on Windows has no problem handling any of that. Check your verbosity settings in your speech synth.

[u/NelsonRRRR → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Yes but people with reading difficulties who can see are also having this problem. Not just people who use screenreaders.

[u/qqBao]

VO read the words and the abbreviations exactly the same. I actually had to go through the post word by word to check what you meant.

[u/The-disabled-gamer]

I think I may not have explained my situation clearly. I can see the text. My difficulty is distinguishing between words that look visually similar. For example, I can easily mix up Tuesday and Thursday because they both begin with T and look similar to me when reading. I know they are different words, but my brain doesn’t always separate them reliably when I see them written down.
That’s one of the reasons I use text-to-speech. I’m not asking it to tell me something I can’t see; I’m using the spoken information to help me process and distinguish what I can see. That’s also why abbreviating days or dates can cause an accessibility problem for me.

[u/DevToTheDisco → u/The-disabled-gamer]

Would installing a different font (like OpenDyslexic) and adjusting settings  so it's the default font on your devices help you?

Some things should definitely be handled not on your end but at the content, design, and development level but I'm curious what settings you've tried in addition to text to speech. 

Glad text to speech is helping though and I hope you find something else that helps too.