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From: Evans, Donald (Contractor)
Date: Dec 2, 2009 1:20PM

Can anyone explain to me why JAWS does not recognize the 3rd table in the following code as a table? The T key will not move to it, and the normal table keys will not navigate it. However, if I take out the line of text in the last TD. It works as expected?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

<head>
<title> Table Test </title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Test
</p>


<table>
<tr>
<th>test1</th>
<th>test</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test data</td>
<td>test data</td>
</tr>
</table>


<table>
<tr>
<th>test2</th>
<th>test2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test data</td>
<td>test data</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Summary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>strff</td>
<td>stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>stuff</td>
<td>This MAP Learning Activities Workbook will help guide you in your development
of a dynamic and effective Mentoring Action Plan. It also offers sample Mentoring Goals and Learning Activities.
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Donald F. Evans, DeQue Systems<http://www.deque.com/>;
US Dept of Education
Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Phone: 202.453.7317
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