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Re: JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Mar 14, 2008 8:00AM

Tim,

If you would like to send me a link, I will take a look and see if I can
figure out what's going on for you.

Mike

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Tim
Harshbarger
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm

Mike,

Thanks for the suggestion. JAWS isn't announcing the table--like it
thinks it is a layout table. I tried adding in th elements and it seems
to ignore them.

I guess I might need to rebuild the table from scratch and keep adding
back items to it until I can recreate the problem.

Thanks!
Tim

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,
>Michael
>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:04 PM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm
>
>Is JAWS not announcing the table at all, or is it just not announcing
>row and column headers? On my system, which is configured for JAWS not

>to announce layout tables, JAWS will announce any table that includes
>TH elements. I can also navigate to those tables using the "t" key.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Tim
>Harshbarger
>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:46 AM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS 9 and the Layout Table Algorithm
>
>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.
>
>Thanks!
>Tim
>