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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jun 11, 2015 2:23PM

hello:
i just tried and it worked properly for me
witch is to say
as i moved down the column it read the name of the city and if i move
across the ro it reads the type.
you don't want it to read the content for the curent thing over and over
again just the part that changes.
i.e. if you move from expense type like from travel to hotel you want it
to tell you that but you don't want it to tell you the city as well every
time i remember the last thing i was on and if i move with table
navigation i only want to have the screen reader read the changed header
not both.
what you might be confused by is the screen reader will not read the
hedders if you are using a say all or read continuously you would not want
that lucy

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Nelson Wong < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > > >



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