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Re: complex table question

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From: Angela French
Date: Oct 29, 2012 9:44AM

Birkir,
Is there something that can be put in empty cells (N/A perhaps?) that would make them less confusing?

Angela French

>Using table reading commands I'd
>very quickly get lost in the table without the ID and Header tags causing row
>and column title being read for each cell in the table, especially since there
>are empty cells in it. If you skipped them the table would become awfully
>confusing, unfortunately. Probably not the answer you wanted to hear, but
>from a screen reader user perspective that is the truth I must present. ;)
>Cheers -B
>