The article gives two reasons for the choice: > 1. Accessibility Here I agree with you that it feels like a workaround. Well, technically, it is not the brows

The article gives two reasons for the choice: > 1. Accessibility Here I agree with you that it feels like a workaround. Well, technically, it is not the browsers that need fixing, but rather Dragon Naturally Speaking and the NVDA screen reader. > 2. Incrementable numbers (the fact that long series of digits get reinterpreted as large numbers, which causes all sort of issues, like them being reformatted in scientific 1.23e+45 notation) Here instead it feels more like a legitimate things both on gov.uk's part and on the browser's part. "Numbers" and "long series of digits" are fundamentally different things, and it seems normal that they would be described with different input fields. (Now how those input fields should be named, that I am not qualified to have an opinion on.)