WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

RE: Sortable Table Question

for

From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Apr 1, 2003 11:38AM

What method is being employed to "re-order" the table? My first guess is
that since it is probably a page re-fresh the screen readers would probably
start over again at row 1, cell 1.

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, Lisa F (LMS) [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Web AIM Forum (E-mail)
> Subject: Sortable Table Question
>
>
> My question concerns tables which allow the contents to be sorted on the
> page by clicking on one of the header titles. The table is then sorted
> based on that column. My question - does this cause a problem for
> accessibility? My guess would be 'Yes'. If the page is
> resorted, does the
> user have to start over reading the table at the top each time?
> Or do they
> stay somewhere in the middle of the table, where the row they are on may
> have just changed? Has anyone run across this? Any opinions?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> To err is human; to forgive is good user interface design.
>
> Lisa F. Miller
> BWXT Y-12 Technical Computing
> Email: <EMAIL REMOVED> Phone: 574-8946
>
>
> ----
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
> visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
>
>
>
>



----
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/