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Re: Proper Way to Render Table for Reading Cells

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 7, 2015 7:30AM

> I'd like to either use hotkeys within the web browser using JavaScript
> or accept any other recommendations on replicating the functionality
> for disabled folks to be able to "select" a table row to perform
> actions after the fact.

Remember that the page/script won't know where the virtual/browser cursor is. So you will actually have to provide some sort of focusable mechanism as _mallory indicates even if you create hotkeys unless the hotkeys are hard coded to specific rows. In addition, JAWS is different from other screen readers like NVDA and Window-Eyes that it only focuses controls like links on tab while other screen readers will focus them when you reach them via arrow keys in browse mode.

Jonathan

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