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From: Sumit Patel
Date: May 24, 2023 4:38AM

Hai,

I have a table which has column headers , row headers and tooltips
inside most of the cells.
When A screen reader user navigates on this table with arrow keys ,
would not get to know anything as the reading order is completely
incorrect.
On arrow key, first focus goes to the row headers, then , column
headers , tooltips and finally to the cells .
Table structure is not get identified . so, the don't even know this
is a table unless a sighted user explains the structure

Seems like The dev team does not able to provide table structure as
they have technical limitation to make changes on this component .

So, they have given a PDF file next to this table which serves the ame
purpose . The pdf file is accessible .

So, my question is is it enough to meet WCAG ? because though the
information can be conveyed to screen reader user in an accessible
alternative , screen reader user will have a feeling that they are
missing something when the reader read out all the information in the
above given order .

Do we need to ask to hide the table from screen reader and provide a
a short alt text for the same and informing them an accessible
alternative is provided in the form of pdf below .

Regards,
Sumit.