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From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Date: Apr 10, 2003 11:59AM

I have a number of data tables to add to my site and I want to be sure
that I have one coded correctly before I move on to the others.

Trying to make this data accessible, I used <th scope="col"> for the
column headers and <th scope="row"> for row headers. I thought that as
this is a simple table, a screen reader would read this as "Abbe -
Standard Basic 15% 60.24. Standard Full 30% 120.48, Standard Comp 40%
160.65" etc. However, JAWS reads this table left to right without
reading the column headings.

Do I need to use the abbr or headers attribute instead? The URL of my
table is

http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/lib/stats/2002/hours02.html

Thanks!


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Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Web Administrator
South Carolina State Library
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Telephone: 803.734.5831



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