- From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:42:32 -0800
- To: "Gatewood, Joy" <jogat@opic.gov>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Joy, Jaws won't read the table as described automatically, but the header & cell information can be obtained with the CONTROL+ALT+Numericpad5 keystroke. (Control+Alt+arrow keys may also speak the cell information, but I'm a bit hazy on which applications these are supposed to work in.) >http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#identifying-table-rows-columns is the definitive table reference. Be glad you don't have to code for Jaws perfection, though. In general, as a designer it's best to code to the standard & let the various screen readers do the rest. If Jaws or another program doesn't implement correctly, it's their problem. Patrick At 10:22 AM 11/6/01, Gatewood, Joy wrote: >Hello all - >I hope that someone here can help me. I am a consultant for gov't agencies >in Washington, D.C., working to make their websites meet the Section 508 >criteria. > >I'm especially concerned with trying to make tables containing data meet >these Section 508 criteria: > >(g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables. > >(h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data >tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers. > >JAWS does not seem to render the tables that I have annotated regardless of >the method uses - "scope", "headers", and "axis" attributes. The table is >read exactly as it was before, except that now the caption is read. > >Is there something I should be doing to put JAWS in the "table" mode? I am >using JAWS 3.5 and MSIE 5.0 > >Could someone point me to a page that contains a perfectly annotated table >that JAWS will read? > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >Joy Gatewood >ERIM/VRI >www.vrionline.com >jogat@opic.gov >-----------------------------------------------------
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