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Re: JAWS cannot handle complex table

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 29, 2018 11:17AM

Kind of. Assuming the tables are defined correctly, then nested tables
sort of work. JAWS will tell you a table is nested but NVDA and VoiceOver
will not.

And you can kind of get into a "tab trap" when navigating within the table.
If you use ctrl+alt+arrowkeys to navigate through the outer table and you
get to a cell that is a nested table, the ctrl+alt+arrowkeys start
navigating through the cells in the inner table but once you reach a table
boundary in the inner table, the key won't move you out of the table, just
like it works for a normal (non-nested) table. If you stick with
ctrl+alt+arrowkeys, you are stuck in the inner table. You have to use a
simple up or down arrow to get out of the inner table when you're on the
boundary.

So it's doable, but it might be cognitive challenging.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:40 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On this topic, does any screen reader handle nested tables correctly?
>
> Sean
>