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From: Langum, Michael J
Date: Sep 23, 2010 10:15AM

James,

Thanks for the heads up on the case sensitivity issue. I have updated the file.

But I don't think that explains why JAWS is not voicing the column and row head information when it moves from cell to cell.

Do you have any insight on that?
-- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of James Nurthen
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS Table behavior

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
>
>