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From: Joel Ward
Date: Oct 16, 2001 6:10PM

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the info!
Does JAWS and HPR associate the id and headers attributes of the TH and TD
cells, or the scope attributes of the TH cells? Or do these programs
"automatically" associate headers with cells?
The Access Board suggested that we use these attributes, which I think are
great in theory. Just curious whether they are used in practice.
Joel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bohman" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: IBM Home Page Reader

> The latest versions of both JAWS and HPR read the headers just fine when
you
> go into table reading mode. For Home Page Reader (HPR), you hit ALT+T,
then
> use the arrows to navigate between cells. In JAWS, you hit CTRL+ALT+arrows
> to navigate between cells. JAWS does have a fatal flaw though: if you have
> spanned columns or rows, it will associate the wrong headers with the
cells.
> HPR does not have this problem. As long as you don't have spanned cells,
> both read the tables very well. I have less experience with Window Eyes,
so
> I can't speak to that directly.
>
> Paul Bohman
> Technology Coordinator
> WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
> www.webaim.org
> Utah State University
> www.usu.edu
>
>