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Re: Guidelines for tables in Word

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 23, 2013 8:21AM

Jim: this is a JAWS only hack and must be done properly or there is no benefit to the JAWS user. see Bookmarks in tables - http://www.ehealth.va.gov/508/tutorials/word/7bookmarks_1.asp

. Bookmarks do nothing with JAWS in PDF that I can find.

[AWK] If you navigate the the bookmarks tab in Reader you can navigate a document by bookmarks, but the bookmarks are not used to create tags in a specific manner.

- Caption (References ribbon, Captions tab)

Jim: useful visually, not passed on to JAWS when you get a list of Tables (insert-ctrl-t), conversion to HTML results in a paragraph marked with class=MSOCaption. It appears as a separate line in PDF unrelated to the table.

[AWK] The caption should be the first (or last) item in the table tag structure. I'll check to see if we have an open issue for that and add it if we don't.

[AWK] It is worth noting a couple things in the rules below

- Assign a header row (table tools ribbon)
- Assign first column (table tools ribbon)

[AWK] Neither of these two things actually does anything to the document structure. The only way to get headings in the output is the ensure that the next item in this list is checked ("repeat as header row..."). These checkboxes control style options for the table, although some of the styles have the "repeat as..." checkbox checked for you.

- "Repeat as header row at the top of each page" (via Table Properties, Row
tab)
[AWK] Checking this will make the TDs become TH's in the PDF export. In the HTML export it only wraps the TD's in a <THEAD>.

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