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From: Roberto Modica
Date: Mar 16, 2007 2:50AM

Hi Chris,

I cant really picture that table in my head, have you got an example?

Rob
Roberto Modica wrote:
> Hi Chirs just by briefly looking over the code, it looks fine. I only
have
> an issue with the use of a table (an this is my opinion) sometimes they do
> not linearise in screen readers that well, and this is something you
should
> check. I have written a little article about forms accessibility,
hopefully
> that may give you some more ideas.
>
> http://www.modika.co.uk/Articles/increasing-form-accessibility.html
>
>
Thanks for the information.

I am aware of the issues and solutions you outline in your article and
I, personally, would not use a table for a form if I could possibly help
it. However, I would not really have answered the question if I hadn't
used a table and I was attempting to address making tables as accessible
as possible by helping screen readers make sense of the information.

I do have one question though:

If I have a table full of tick boxes with <th> cells at the top and left
indicating scope but with no labels (as there is no text to wrap the
label around) how will someone using a screen reader deal with this?

And what about labels and <select> and <textarea>?

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