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Re: How to announce information outside table related to row?

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From: Angela French
Date: Mar 19, 2012 9:27AM

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>I have a fairly long table and one row is color coated. There is a legend at the
>bottom of the page where a visual user can see what the coloring represents
>for the row. How would I convey this information to a screen reader user?

Stella - there are some sighted people with a type of color blindness who may also no see your red. They will see it as gray. You might try some sort of type symbol you could use that is defined in the legend.