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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jan 29, 2014 12:20AM

Hi Karl,

On 29 Jan 2014, at 03:52, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 2. The existence of the tables are often announced by assistive
> technologies. So each new table gets announced, adding to unnecessarily
> verbose output and possible user confusion.

so why not introduce a rule such that AT should skip 'announcing' (does that apply to anything other than screen readers?) the table-ness of layout tables, and just progress through the layout table's cell in the intended order?

Olaf