The Financial Times has made a small but significant change to its style guide. The abbreviation of millions is now ‘mn’ instead of ‘m’. One of the main reasons is to benefit text-to-speech software, which reads out the ‘m’ as metres instead of millions, confusing visually impaired readers. It also comes into line with our style for billion (bn) and trillion (tn).

In December 2021 FT.com regained a certification of compliance to level AA against the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards, an internationally recognised set of recommendations for improving web accessibility. They explain how to make digital services, websites and apps accessible to everyone.

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