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Re: Tables with Header cells in the second column, not the first

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From: Jesse Hausler
Date: May 8, 2012 6:10PM

Sounds good. I'll see if I can inform Freedom Scientific.

I tested in NVDA. It's very inconsistent. It pretty much always reads the column headers, but only sometimes reads the row headers. But sometimes it does read the row header for my data cell to the left of my <th>... So there's something.

Take care,
Jesse




On 5/8/12 5:04 PM, "lucia greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Ok I had to know.
I went to the web training pages for jaws and you have a bug with jaws.
Smile
Even on their sample table ware the second Colom is the header it does not
speak the header. I so rarely find a well-marked up table I was confusing
what does happen with what should happen. Yes the ctrl alt 5 does read the
header. But not in the first Colom. Even on their sample tables smile .
sorry sometimes I need to step back and remember that the norm is bad code
not good code and sometimes it's just that the screen reader also can be at
fault smile

Lucia Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
UC Berkeley
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