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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Apr 11, 2003 6:54AM

Cheryl,
Once you are in the table (read down to one of the data cells), use
Ctrl+alt+arrows to move around the table.

Alternatively, if you have JAWS 4.5 with the navigation quick keys on (on by
default), hit "T" to go to the table and then use the navigation keys.

The table seems to read fine, but you might want to consider adding @abbr
values to the column headings - it gets pretty tedious hearing the full
heading and if nothing else the FY2002 might be able to be cut out since the
whole table is about FY2002 and that information is available in multiple
places.

AWK

On 4/10/03 2:49 PM, "Cheryl Kirkpatrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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