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From: Priti Rohra
Date: Jul 9, 2014 1:34AM

Hi Devarshi,

I am not sure about support for table summary in Jaws 15 but NVDA
supports PDF table summaries since its 2012 update!
Also NVDA reads the caption for tables. Press the quick nav key "T"
and NVDA will read the summary/Caption provided for a table.

On an another note, Jaws does read table captions when you press Up
arrow after jumping to a table by pressing T, surely not a ideal
method though.

Always BPositive!
Priti Rohra

On 7/8/14, Devarshi Pant < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> "I think what you are aiming at is the table @summary which can be set in
> the table editor. Support for AT is likely to be inconsistent though with
> summary."
>
>>> Yes Jon, I am expecting PDF table summaries to be picked up by JAWS as
> they are in web. It seems adobe is providing the hook here (via the summary
> attribute?), but jaws does not seem to detect it. Not sure if this will be
> accomplished with adobe 11 / jaws 15 or later versions.
>
> I also experimented using an empty caption tag with an alternate text after
> the <table> and it was read when listing all the tables (Ins + Ctrl + T) --
> though not perfect, it seems to work. Ideally, I would like to navigate to
> every table and hear the summary by using the table quick key.
>
> Devarshi
>> In PDF, what is the significance of the 'Alternate Text' property
>
> The property is simply available for all elements. Practically speaking the
> actualText property should be used as replacement text Luke Olaf said but
> it would replace the whole table's contents. I think what you are aiming
> at is the table @summary which can be set in the table editor. Support for
> AT is likely to be inconsistent though with summary.
>
> Jon
>
>
>> On Jul 7, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Devarshi Pant < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> Hi all - In PDF, what is the significance of the 'Alternate Text'
>> property
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