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I'm curious if anyone knows if abbreviating monthly and annual pricing as "../mo" and "../yr" will translate into all other languages? For example, if I display pricing to users as "$220/yr" or "18.33/mo"
Furthermore, I'm wondering if the "/mo" and "/yr" abbreviation is accessible for screen readers? I've seen Apple do this on their website but they use aria-hidden="true" on this portion of the text.
Not really, as a native Spanish speaker I can tell you the words are completely different year=año, month=mes, since they are short there is not really an abbreviation. Other languages haver their own words/abbreviations too.
That being said, you will only need to worry about it if you are actually translating the whole site to other languages and you want to keep consistency; to that purpose in some cases you will also need to change the currency sign, not every body uses $. If you are curious you can take a look to the apple site you mention and append a country suffix to see how it's handled
Mexico: https://www.apple.com/mx/
Germany https://www.apple.com/de
just to list a couple, good luck!
