Re: understanding tables with Jaws
- From: "Bob Verity" <rtverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:52:14 -0500
To navigate in tables in Internet or Word you should hold down the alt and
control keys while using the arrow keys to read virtically and horozontally
through the table. The column and row headings should be read to you as you
move through the table.
HTH
RTV
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From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:02 PM
Subject: understanding tables with Jaws
I think this is a basic issue that I've just never understood. when I'm on
a Web page, let's take a weather page of an online newspaper for example,
take the 5-day forecast feature of the Los Angeles times weather page. For
anyone interested, the home page is
www.latimes.com,
and then from that page
click on either Forecast or Weather, which both lead to the weather page.
Okay. So I click on a this page link for the 5-day forecast. I'm taken
down the page to the title 5-day forecast, and when I arrow down, Jaws
announces that I'm entering a table.
Now, this is a fairly simple table, which is why I can handle it in my
simple way, though I'd like to know if there's a better approach. First,
Jaws presents a list of the names of the days. I suppose they're what I'd
see across the top of the table, if I could see this and Jaws hadn't
rearranged it.
Then, and I assume these cells are presented from left to right across the
"real" web page so that they line up under the days they pertain to, comes
a list of the expected sky conditions: Partly cloudy, sunny, etc.
Finally, I assume also in a line from left to right beneath this, comes a
sequence of expected high and low temperatures for each day. 72/54, 69/53,
and so forth.
Well, with this table, as with any I encounter on a Web page with Jaws (I
just don't happen to have encountered tables or created any in Word), my
method of gleaning information from them is to visualize the table as it
must look in actuality, and memorize which things on the X axis must
correspond with which things on the Y axis, or however I imagine the table
is laid out. Unconsciously, I'm counting, in the sense that if Friday is
the third day in the list of days, then the third sky condition descriptor
or
set of high and low temperatures must belong to Frieday.
Sometimes, as with this weather forecast feature, it's not too difficult to
do. But in tables that are any more complex than this, it's sometimes
mind-boggling difficult for me. Am I doing the only thing a Jaws user can
do (minus the visualization for those who don't have a graphical image to
refer to) but always with the memorization and painstaking correlation? Or
am I misunderstanding how you're supposed to "view" a table under Jaws?
Thanks.
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