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Re: Reading tables in JAWS

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From: Ron Stewart
Date: Feb 4, 2014 2:46PM

Good afternoon,

I think this reflects a common misconception of AT users that is very
detrimental to our ongoing accessibility work. The vast majority of users
of AT, like screen readers, tend to use less than 10% of their
functionality, just like most software users. It is critical to efficient
use of content that good semantic markup be used. Why should I have to hit
hundreds of keystrokes when if the content was properly marked up I could
get to it much more efficiently.

The second would be that you cannot just design for JAWS accessibility you
need to base your design on accepted standards using OS keyboard commands.
Most of my users cannot afford JAWS, but they should be able to access my
content using NVDA or VoiceOver with a similar experience!

Ron Stewart