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Re: Properly repeat table headers

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From: Joe Chidzik
Date: Feb 21, 2013 7:56AM


> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Joe Chidzik wrote:
> > [Joe Chidzik] Sighted users, could scroll in the iframe, to scroll through the table
> content whilst the table containing just headers above this remained static and
> visible.
>
> Was it easily navigable for keyboard users (ie page up/page down worked)?
> Sometimes iframes are coded problematically for keyboard/voice.
>

[Joe Chidzik] That's a good point; the only way it was usable from the keyboard (that I remember checking) was that there were links in each of the table rows. So when I tabbed into the table and a link received the focus, I could then arrow up and down to scroll the table updown. I don't think I tried page updown keys, but guess they would have worked. I'm not sure how I would have scrolled the table from the keyboard if there was no link within it to receive the focus - I suspect I would not have been able to though.

Also not sure how it would have worked for voice users - I guess clicking into the iframe to set the focus there may have allowed scroll updown commands to then work, but I didn't check this at the time. I'll try and get access to the site again so I can try this though.

Joe