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From: Nelson Wong
Date: Jun 11, 2015 2:00PM

Hi everyone,

I haven't been able to get Voiceover or NVDA to read the headers attribute
in a table. Here is one of the tables I've been looking at:
http://tsbvi.edu/web/tables/4-tables-adv-headers.html

For example, in the Travel Expense Report table, when reading the San Jose,
subtotals, Transport cell (<td headers="go jose sub-jose">90.00</td>), I'm
expecting the screen reader to read something like "row 5 column 4
transport san jose subtotals 90.00". I haven't been able to get it to read
that and was wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if the headers
attribute is not supported by these screen readers / browsers. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Btw, here is an image of the table and code: http://cl.ly/bcgC.

- Nelson