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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Apr 18, 2012 7:55AM

I'm trying to sort out a bunch of conflicting issues about accessible Excel spreadsheets.

From the government agency's guidelines (not Sec. 508 or WCAG):

"Formula cells are indicated by a comment to alert users of their functionality. The comment is the actual formula in the cell so that an Assistive Technology (AT) screen reader will alert the user to what it is doing."

DA: I don't understand this -- I use spreadsheets almost daily, with JAWS, and formulas are read. I would just ignore this requirement, unless of course there is something I don't know!

Dave