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Re: Reading tables in JAWS

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From: Hewitt,Susan (DSHS)
Date: Feb 4, 2014 2:52PM

> Most of my users cannot afford JAWS, but they should be able to access my content using NVDA or VoiceOver with a similar experience!

Semantic coding (scopes, header & id attributes on tables, etc.) is definitely the best way to try and reach this goal. Personally, I don't know of how to code specifically for one type of screen reader but I do know how to write accessible, semantic HTML.

From Steve,
> 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.

He must not have known of the Ctrl-Alt-Num Pad 5 shortcut which tells exactly where you are in the table with all applicable headers. (Assuming the person who made the site coded it accessibly. ;)

I'm curious to hear from actual AT users so shall say no more on this topic. Also, it's time to go home.

Susan