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Re: Using Aria within a table to indicate that a cell ishighlighted

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Jul 4, 2022 10:31AM

Hi Geethavani,

You can add an aria-label to the <th> but it won't be read by JAWS/Chrome or NVDA/Firefox. VoiceOver in MacOS/Safari will read it in addition to the cell content.

A better bet might be to add the information as hidden text within the cell.

Mark