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From: Bim Egan
Date: Jun 24, 2019 1:48PM

Hi Mike,

The only directions available are vertical, up or down columns; or
horizontal left to right or vice versa.

Please don't try to think for the screenreader or their users, it would only
cause confusion. The right thing to do is use table headers whenever they
are needed to understand data and the scope attribute to specify whether a
header relates to the column or the row it heads up.

Thanks,

Bim




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Of Steve Green
Sent: 24 June 2019 20:35
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mark up for table read in screen reader

There might be some freaky way to do that with ARIA, but no one is going to
understand what's happening. Why do you want to do that?

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd



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Kolitsky, Michael A PHD
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Subject: [WebAIM] mark up for table read in screen reader

Hi, in a table with 3 rows and 3 columns, can that table be marked up in a
screen reader so you can read in the diagonal direction from one cell to
another, i.e. row 1 cell 1 to row 2 cell 2? Or is it only able to move the
cursor in the right-left or up-down direction?

Mike

Michael Kolitsky, Ph.D.
Online Adjunct Professor
Biological Sciences
The University of Texas at El Paso
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