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Re: Asking for views on using h1-h6 heading markup inside datatables

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From: KellyFord
Date: Aug 30, 2017 8:35AM

Strictly from the screen reader usability side, in your example, the headings make the page more usable in my view. In my experience more screen reader users know about heading navigation versus the commands to navigate through a table with different table navigation commands.

I'd also ask though about something you mentioned on the page about the services themselves being available as another cell with text that isn't reported as a link. Your page says about this:

There is actually a link to the respective service in the last column (not reproduced here) which can be triggered
using ENTER (but is not announced as link).

In my experience, many screen reader users won't know they can press enter here without an actionable role being communicated i.e. link.

Kelly