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Re: JAWS Table behavior

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Sep 23, 2010 10:27AM

I only use JAWS for testing purposes - so do not feel I am really qualified
to state definitively that it is ok - but everything seems to work correctly
for me. Any changes in header are read when moving from cell to cell.

Regards,
James

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:11, Langum, Michael J < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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
> >
> >