WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Another table sort question

for

From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Oct 26, 2018 1:38AM

I find this table quite counter-intuitive. In the top row, pressing
Tab moves across the row. But as soon as the focus moves out of the
headers and into the data, pressing Tab moves row by row, not column
by column.

And having to listen to all of that sorting information as I move
around the data would drive me crazy if I had to spend much time
working with tables like this.

If the instruction were provided by the ARIA-DESCRIBEDBY instead of
the ARIA-LABELLEDBY attribute, I wonder if the instructions would
still be spoken by screenreaders when the user moves to a new column
and the screenreader reports the column header? If not, then IMO this
would be a great solution.

On 19/06/2018, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I'm looking at "Datatables" (see URL https://datatables.net/), and it seems
> to have done a lot to try and be accessible, but to me it seems a bit iffy.
> The context changes depending how I navigate the table, and depending on the
> context it may announce "Position" or "Position: activate to sort column
> ascending" as the header as I browse the cells.
>
> Am I just not used to the right way to do a more interactive grid, or are
> these quirks going to present problems in the real world?
> > > > >