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From: James Nurthen
Date: Sep 23, 2010 10:09AM

Mike,
In the second table your ids are not of consistent case. id is
case-sensitive yet you have some references to them in the headers attribute
with initcap and some in all lower case.
Regards,
James


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:44, Langum, Michael J < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> I have created a page to test alternate ways of coding a complex data
> table. In one case I use "scope" attributes. In the second case, I use "id"
> and "headers" attributes. The page is at
> http://www.opm.gov/_mike/jaws-test/tabledemo.asp. I wanted to compare the
> way JAWS provides column and row header information in these two
> constructions.
>
> When I asked a friend who is a JAWS user to test the page, JAWS did not
> voice any of the column and row heads. It has always been my understanding
> that when JAWS navigates from data cell to data cell, it would voice the
> column or row head value that changed before it voiced the value of data
> cell. Am I misinformed about how JAWS handles column and row heads?
>
> Can someone look at the code, and tell me why JAWS did not voice the values
> of the column and row heads
>
>
> -- Mike
>
>