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Re: Problem with JAWS Table Navigation?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Dec 2, 2009 5:42PM

Hi Jared
With all due respect, no we shouldnt' deal with it, people should
stop it, plain and simple. I rarely use table commands to navigate
web pages. I use semantic markup commands to find my way around sites.

Why should we have to deal with people's unwillingness to get with
the times. I stop usig tables in my web design 5 years ago.
Accessibility is about growth, not stagnation.

cheers

Geof






At 06:53 PM 12/2/2009, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > Why are people still using tables for layout?
>
>That's a very good question. But they still do, so we must deal with it.
>
>If a layout table is falsely detected as a data table, this is
>annoying. The bigger issue is when a data table is falsely interpreted
>to be a layout table and all accessibility functionality is lost.
>
>Jared
>