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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Jun 3, 2017 8:33PM

Apple creates its own spreadsheet for the Macintosh called "numbers". In Numbers there is a way to define a row or column as a header. Generally when this is done, Numbers does read you prompts much like with JAWS on the Windows platform.


Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Jun 2, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Thanks for the various suggestions. At first I could not find the Excel Name Manager functionality-- because I was on a Mac. The version of Excel I switched to on a PC had it.
> Thanks, too, for the JAWS keystroke suggestions.
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> This is a wonderful list!
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> Thanks,
> A
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>> On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:53 PM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> You are correct david. Also Insert + CTRL + Alt + r will work for row headings.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrews, David B (DEED)
>> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 10:32 AM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Excel and Jaws
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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.
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>> Dave
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Alan Zaitchik
>> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 10:12 AM
>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Excel and Jaws
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>> 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
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