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From: Don Mauck
Date: Thu, Dec 06 2018 10:13AM
Subject: Accessible tables in Microsoft Word16with a screen reader
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I'm having poor results with what I would think should be a simple enough task in creating an accessible table in Word2016. I'm wondering if someone who is a Word expert would contact me directly so I don't clutter up the list. Right now I cannot get the column headings to be read unless I go in to the JAWS settings and manually turn on the table markup. Then play with the row/column settings.

From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Thu, Dec 06 2018 8:00PM
Subject: Re: Accessible tables in Microsoft Word16with a screen reader
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I'll reply publicly because the answer is easy. You only can mark the the
top row as headings in that version. You can't mark row headings. To mark
headings, you have to use the repeat header rows options under the table
layout tab.

Ryan E. Benson

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 12:13 Don Mauck < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = wrote:

> I'm having poor results with what I would think should be a simple enough
> task in creating an accessible table in Word2016. I'm wondering if someone
> who is a Word expert would contact me directly so I don't clutter up the
> list. Right now I cannot get the column headings to be read unless I go in
> to the JAWS settings and manually turn on the table markup. Then play with
> the row/column settings.
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