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From: Jim Homme
Date: Jun 5, 2018 6:32PM

Hi,
I think this is more a usability question than an accessibility one, but please feel free to correct me.

I'm a screen reader user. I feel that I'm OK with the following situation, and wondered what your opinion is, and was hoping for a possible coding answer.

The situation is that there are tables on a site I'm testing. The table header cells allow the user to sort columns in ascending order and descending order if they click links contained in the header cells. Now this is my opinion, which I would like you to comment on. I feel that if possible, it would be OK for usability for the screen reader to skip that the header cells can be sorted as the user navigates among the table data cells, but hear that they can sort the columns when they are reading the header cells. Assuming that you agree with this opinion, is there a solution that allows this to happen? So far I have not thought of one.

Thanks.

Jim



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