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Re: JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Mar 13, 2008 1:50PM

Chris,

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried adding th elements. It
evidently already had a tbody element, but no thead. Unfortunately, its
still treating it like a layout table.

Thanks!
Tim


>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of
>Chris Hoffman
>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:53 AM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm
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>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
>
>