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From: James Kennard
Date: Jan 5, 2010 3:39AM

Am trying to settle a debate.

In an HTML table in the first column there is an identifier, and in the
last column there is a bunch of links. The last column has the heading
"Actions". I tried using JAWS and found these links really difficult to
understand because there is no pause and no recognition that we have
reached the end of a row. Therefore I think that the titles for the
links should include the indentifier, for example: "Remove 123", "Edit
123".

A colleague of mine however thinks that the title should not include the
identifier because they feel the issue is with JAWS not informing the
user that it has reached the end of the row. Something which would make
it implicit as to which row/item the link refers to. I assume there is
probably a configuration option to make JAWS identify the start and end
of table rows?

Any thoughts?

thanks!

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