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Re: Reading of tables with JAWS

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jan 5, 2010 9:24AM

Can you send a link to the page with the results?

Do you provide a SUMMARY attribute for the TABLE element and TH elements for the headers?

These are usually the trigger for JAWS to recognize a tabular data table.

Best practices for data tables:
http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/nav/dtable/

You should NOT be using ROLE=GRID unless you are also providing keyboard support for focus management and using the other GRID related ARIA markup for creating an accessible GRID. See example of an accessible GRID:

http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/grid/grid4.php


Jon

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:48:44 +0530
>From: Rakesh chowdary < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: [WebAIM] Reading of tables with JAWS
>To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>Hi all,
>
>We have a problem with reading of tables with JAWS.
>Our page is a search results page in which the results are displayed
>in a tabular form. For appearance the table looks like a table but
>JAWS is unable to recognise as a table for e.g. If you press "t" with
>JAWS its reading "No tables found in the page".
>We provided the role attribute (role="grid"). JAWS is able to
>recognise this table grid but it is not passing the xhtml validation.
>Any thoughts?
>