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Re: Reading tables in JAWS

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 4, 2014 2:47PM

I agree that experienced users generally don't read pages continuously, but the exception is data tables. In our user testing we find that almost no one uses the table navigation commands - they all 'arrow' through tables. The only person I can recall who did use table navigation was a JAWS trainer, and even he could make no sense of complex tables with either multiple levels of headings or colspans or rowspans. It was just impossible to construct a mental model of what he was hearing even though the tables were marked up correctly.

Steve Green