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Re: captioning table question

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 20, 2013 11:25AM


If you are working in Word, you can create a Table of Tables if you use a
caption. Same with a Table of Figures if you use captions for figures. It
lets you create tables of those elements in the document but as other have
said, this is separate from any adaptive technology specific methods of
locating or navigating to tables...although a linked Table of Tables might
be helpful for everyone in Word documents depending on how many tables there
are.

As a rule I put table captions above tables so that anyone using adaptive
technology or not knows what to expect in terms of data before they enter a
table.

Cheers, Karen

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just tested, thanks for the shortcut key.
the captions show in the list of tables as does the size of the table e.g.
My Table Caption 6x10 (col x row)


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> In VoiceOver you can see a list of tables in the Rotor. It will
> identify the table based on its caption, if present.
>
> In JAWS, INSERT+CTRL+T is a shortcut key to list the tables on the
> page. I don't have JAWS handy to test if it lists by caption or not.
> Regardless, if the table has a visual caption, it should be associated
> with the <caption> element.
>
> Jared
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>



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