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Re: JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm

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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Mar 13, 2008 11:00AM

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:45 -0700, Tim Harshbarger wrote:
> Does anyone know how JAWS 9 determines if a table is a layout or data
> table?
>
> I seem to be looking at a HTML table with 2 columns and 3 rows that JAWS
> thinks is a layout table, although the author intends it to be a data
> table. It looks like all the cells have content of some type.

Hi Tim,

I don't know for sure, but I imagine having thead, tbody and th elements
would make it an obvious data table, since layout tables are probably
going to be all td's.

Chris