[jawsscripts] Re: Table headers

JAWS is supposed to understand HTML markup of table headers in
accordance with W3C accessibility guidelines.  If you know such markup
exists in a table but JAWS is not reading the headers correctly, I
suggest submitting a problem report to Freedom Scientific.

Jamal
On Fri, 28 Mar
2008, Veli wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:14:02 +0200
> From: Veli <vebazu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Table headers
>
> Hi all,
>
> I guess, it would be possible to define through JAWS scripts which rows
> and columns work as headers, when exploring HTML tables with
> Alt+Control+arrow keys. I mean the situations, where the <TH> tags and
> their corresponding attributes in <TD> tags are used "inproperly" or not
> used at all. In such cases, there may be more relevant rows/columns than
> the top one and the left-most, that sould be announced. Example of that
> kind of table:
>
> # | User name | Location | E-mail
> 1 | user1 | city x | a@xxx
> 2 | user3 | city z | x@xxx
>
> Thus JAWS sould be able to speak the data of the second column in this
> example when moving up/down in the table.
>
> Was the description clear enough? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Veli
>
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