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From: David Farough
Date: Sep 23, 2010 11:30AM

I tried your tables using versions 9 10 and 11 of Jaws.
Both tables were read properly in all versions of jaws when using the
proper table navigation keys. (control + alt and left, right, up and
down arrow keys)
is it possible that the user was just arrowing through the text without
using the control + alt arrow keystrokes?
Jaws should be set to announce tables using both row and column or
marked headers. the other settings include announcing table rows or
announce table titles off.
.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

>>> Mary Stores < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 12:38 PM Thursday, September 23,
2010 >>>
Hello,

I'm fairly new to list.

I'm using JAWS 11, IE 8, and Windows XP. When I used the table reading

keystrokes (ctrl+Alt+ Left, Right, Up, or Down arrow), JAWS did
announce when you move to a new column or when you were at the end of

a row for both tables. In the first table, for example: JAWS reads the

following in the 2nd row:

Categories. Major Column 1
Categories. Minor. Column 2
Past. FY 01. Column 3
Past. FY 02. Column 4
Future. FY 03. Column 5
Future. FY04 Column 6

If I read the second row in the second table, JAWS reads the same
imformation as above in the very same way.

Mary

Quoting "Langum, Michael J" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> 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
>>
>>