RE: Table Scope=row working with screen reader?

JAWS has a command to read both headers and the data - it's Ctrl+Alt+NumPad5 with NumLock turned off. You typically only use this if you have lost track of where you are in a table. As far as I recall, NVDA does the same.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: Léonie Watson [mailto:tink@tink.uk] 
Sent: 26 February 2018 21:40
To: Subramanian, Poornima (PCL) <psubramanian@hagroup.com>; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Table Scope=row working with screen reader?

On 26/02/2018 21:12, Subramanian, Poornima (PCL) wrote:
> We are coding for a simple table where scope=column and scope=row 
> defined for headers. When checking with screen reader (NVDA, JAWS), 
> both the "row" and "column" headers are not announced together.

I think it's scope="col", not scope="column".


I also wouldn't expect both the row and column headers to be announced at once. When moving vertically up/down a column, the row header should be announced before the content of the cell. When navigating horizontally left/right through a row, I'd expect the column header to be announced before the contents of the cell.

> 
> The 'row headers' are completely skipped. Only the 'column headers' 
> are announced while navigating through table cells.
> 

Do you have some example code and/or an example you can point to?

> Is this a known issue? Any suggestion to fix this?

I've just run a quick test using the following code, and both Jaws and NVDA announce the row and column headers as expected.

<table>
<tr>
<td scope="col">Name</td><td scope="col">Fruit</td> </tr>

<tr>
<td scope="row">Alice</td><td>Apples</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td scope="row">Bob</td><td>Bananas</td>
</tr>
</table>

Though I'd note that using the <th> element instead of <td scope="..."> is arguably a better idea.

Léonie.
> 
> Appreciate your response!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Poornima
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