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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 20, 2020 5:10PM

JAWS has historically had issues with table navigation commands not working correctly in nested tables. This can be manifested in table header cells with nested layout tables that are not marked as presentation and in data tables within data tables. JAWS can get confused about which table you are in and you can easily skip cells across nested table boundaries and get out of the nested table accidently.

When I previously trained JAWS users we always covered table navigation commands. Although I suspect that many users who have not receive training are not aware of the commands as NVDA and VoiceOver on iOS both announce headers automatically when arrowing down through a table but JAWS does not.

Jonathan