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Re: Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Jul 13, 2017 6:52AM

Hi,
I would be pleasantly surprised to find out that Word associates heading cells with data cells. This is why screen readers use the work-around of bookmarks with naming conventions. The only thing I am aware of that MS does to make tables talk better with screen readers is that in the table properties, we have alt and title, but I believe JAWS does not pick this up, whereas NVDA does. And I do not think it carries over when you save as PDF. I would be very happy to find out that I am wrong on any of these points.

Jim

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From: Angela French<mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 6:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

Jim - so you are saying that after saving as PDF, an editor could use Acrobat Pro to correctly associate headers and cells for a complex table? Has anyone ever heard why MS won't improve on this issue? Aren't we in 2017?

Angela French