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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Mar 20, 2013 9:28AM

We are using this in 3 places.

I didn't have any problems with my screen reader testing. It uses WAI ARIA.
I have one with sorting column activated, and two just tables.

At one point I had scrollbars enabled and that is the one I saw that
produced two tables as you describe. Sorting does not produce two
tables.

I decided against using their jquery solution for scrollbars for
reasons that had nothing to do with accessibility.

I couldn't control the formatting enough across all the browsers that
we support. Also, our power users wanted to print all the data and I
couldn't figure out how to remove the scroll bars for print.

Nancy Johnson


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM, James Nurthen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Sorry about the previous mail. Gmail went crazy on me....
>
> What version of datatables are you using. According to their release
> notes<http://datatables.net/new/1.9>;v1.9 provides
> "*Accessibility*:
> Zero configuration
> table<http://datatables.net/beta/1.9/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html>;
> DataTables tables are now fully accessible and controllable by keyboard
> navigation and suitable markup and WAI-ARIA attributes are used for
> screenreaders. This works "out of the box" with no configuration required.
> To try it out, load any 1.9 example and press the tab key to navigate
> through the table controls. Note that this accessibility work as required
> updating the pagination elements. Please see the upgrade
> notes<http://datatables.net/upgrade/1.9>;
> for further information."
>
> I haven't thoroughly tested anything - and at a quick look they are using
> some roles I don't fully agree with to make the table a live region, but
> they do claim to support accessibility.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, James Nurthen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500) <
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> Apologies if this has been discussed before on the list, I did a quick
>>> check but didn't see anything.
>>>
>>> I was asked to test a Web application developed within my organization.
>>> It contains data grids using a jQuery table plug-in from
>>> www.datatables.net<;http://www.datatables.net>;.
>>> So far, I've found that the column headers are all in one table and the
>>> actual content is in another, which means that the headers are not being
>>> associated with the cells. Has anyone here had experience with the
>>> DataTables plug-in, and can it be made accessible or Section 508 compliant?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Courtney
>>> >>> >>> >>>
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