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From: Carol Foster
Date: Nov 3, 2003 8:35AM

Hello,

I have been looking at options for accessible documents - PDF's, Word,
etc. The documents I am working with at the moment are fairly simple,
but have some tables and lists. In Word 2000, they read fairly well
with JAWS, but I cannot figure out how to identify headers in the
tables, or if that is possible. I did find the "Heading Rows Repeat"
option for tables, but that does not seem to be picked up by JAWS, or am
I missing something?

Also, I am wondering if anyone knows if the free Word reader would work
any differently with JAWS than the full Word 2000.

I am testing with JAWS 4.51 with Word 2000 on a pc with Windows 2000.

(I know and support the idea that HTML is the best way to go, but this
is not always in my control!)

Thanks,
Carol




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