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Re: Feedback on a table sort implementation

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Jun 19, 2018 1:08PM

David, this is excellent information, thanks! I'm not sure how to address some of these oddities, but I can certainly do things like adding a caption.

Swapping the instructional div with a summary attribute also seems to ensure it's always announced, but the summary attribute has been deprecated.... I'm not sure the right approach here - use an obsolete attribute that's likely to go away soon or lose information for a subset of users? And if I use both, it gets announced twice in some situations.

Glen, regarding entering the table: that does make some sense, but it's still a bit odd to me. If there are special instructions for a table that aren't relevant for a specific header or cell, do we just have to hope screen reader users are going to double-check the table? And why is summary (at least in NVDA + Firefox) always announced no matter how I get to the table?

This is tricky.