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Re: Table headers not behaving

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From: Carol Foster
Date: Sep 11, 2002 7:08AM

Apologies if I missed this, but does anyone know if Freedom Scientific is
working on this? Has anyone talked to them about it? I gather that it is
still a problem in the latest versions of JAWS/ConnectOutloud, but I haven't
tried it for myself.

Thanks,
Carol

Paul Bohman wrote:

> . . . .
> However, it's good to be aware of the JAWS bug with spanned rows/columns
> so that those who want to ensure that tables created that way can be
> made accessible to JAWS users by creating a linearized version. The
> linearized version will be unfriendly to most people, and is offered as
> an alternative, not a replacement for the table. Similarly, the table
> version will be unfriendly to JAWS users due to the JAWS bug.
>


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