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From: JP Jamous
Date: Jun 2, 2017 10:53AM

You are correct david. Also Insert + CTRL + Alt + r will work for row headings.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrews, David B (DEED)
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If I am remembering correctly -- and I may get this wrong, but with JAWS, put the cursor in the first cell of the header row and hit jaws+control+alt+C. That should monitor the cells.

Dave



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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Alan Zaitchik
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 10:12 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Excel and Jaws

I'm working on some excel spreadsheets that are basically just tables. They have column headings in the top row. Jaws reads cells announcing their cell ids like A10 or B5-- but I can't seem to get it to repeat the column headings the way it would for an html or PDF table. Is it incapable of doing so, or have I simply missed something in excel or in jaws? And is this reason enough to convert to PDF as our accessible version? Note: the intended use is READ ONLY for these files.
Thanks,
A