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Re: Screenreader voicing of tables

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From: adam solomon
Date: Aug 31, 2010 2:54AM

This is the time to make a very important point after reading the previous
linked article about tables and screen readers:
Our job as developers is to support WCAG 2.0 or whatever standard there
might be. Our job is not to develop specifically for screen readers and
their various bugs and quirks. If you marked up a table according to WCAG 2
you shouldn't even have to check it with a screen reader. There would be no
end to that approach.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> "Would our screenreader experts please explain how screen readers convey
> the column and row header information (when in Table mode)."
>
> The answer is with very little consistency. I'd been looking into
> this anyway, so it seemed like a good time to push this post live:
> http://tink.co.uk/2010/08/screen-reader-support-for-html-tables/
>
>
> Regards,
> Léonie.
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