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Re: Reading of tables with JAWS

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jan 5, 2010 8:33AM

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:
> If you have an example available, I'd be interested to explore a more complex example though.

As would I. What you describe doesn't seem to fit into the detection
heuristics described at http://webaim.org/blog/jaws-ate-my-tables/
Because it's a large table, assuming it has proper table headers that
are marked up as <th>'s and have an assigned scope, JAWS *should*
identify it as data table.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org