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Re: Is VoiceOver more similar to NVDA or JAWS with respect to the accessibility tree?

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From: glen walker
Date: Jun 3, 2020 2:52PM

Oh yeah, tables. I forgot about that heuristic. It's been tweaked over
the years. It's used to be bad at detecting layout tables but has gotten
better. Thanks for reminding me.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:23 PM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Another heuristic is that JAWS has various ways of deciding if a <table>
> element is a layout table, in which case it does not announce the presence
> of the table, the table navigation shortcuts don't work and the contents of
> the <td> elements are concatenated as if they were <span> elements. One
> heuristic is if any cell is larger than a certain size. Another is if the
> table only comprises a single row of <td> elements.
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> Steve
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