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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Mar 4, 2011 8:03AM

On 04/03/2011 11:02, Dawn Budge wrote:
> To get back to the original question, my own experience of trying to use a
> table with a screenreader has found that use of scope attributes is the
> most useful, as it provides context related to the content you've just
> heard. It can be quite easy to lose your mental map of what column you are
> in.

That's very interesting, as @scope was very poorly supported by most
major screen readers. It was certainly the case a year or more ago, and
I wonder has that changed?

Or is it a case that AT repair heuristics is just good at dealing with
common table structures?

Cheers

Josh

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