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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Aug 8, 2018 7:50AM

Jim, if I'm understanding this correctly, all it is is a one-row table
containing the headings, followed by another table containing the
data. If it's coded like this, devs can get the data to scroll while
the headings remain static above. I guess it's what the <thead> and
<tbody> tags were supposed to be for, but the desired behaviours never
really got implemented.

Birkir's suggestion works in Chrome with JAWS 2018, but NVDA doesn't
like it. I stopped using Firefox when it got flaky with JAWS, so I've
no idea how it would behave in that browser.

I guess Jonathan's hack is the only sure-fire way to make it work with
most screenreader/browser combos.

On 07/08/2018, Mohith BP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Below examples from ARIA Authoring practice 1.1 can be referred.
> Latest NVDA on Firefox 52.9.0
> Supports for ARIA Grid.
> NVDA does detect the ARIA role table however row navigation (Ctrl +
> Alt + Down-arrow) does not work as expected.
> JAWS 16 has no supports ARIA Grid structure on both IE 11 and FF.
> Please refer the examples below:
> ARIA Grid:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/examples/grid/dataGrids.html
>
> ARIA Table:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/examples/table/table.html
>
> Note: I have not tested on Firefox 56 or greater.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Mohith B. P.
>
> On 8/7/18, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hi Dawn,
>> I want to get to the bottom of this. We use NVDA mostly in Firefox. I
>> want
>> to look at some code that produces these things. Does anyone know of
>> samples
>> to view?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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