RE: table column reading code needed


Remember to make sure your jaws verbosity is set up to read the headers
though I think there is 3 verbosity settings you can change for tables.

Ken 

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:47 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: table column reading code needed

Hi,

You just need to create a simple table, with or without <th> header
elements, and Jaws will read the column names or row names as needed if you
use control+alt+arrow keys to move in the table.

If you will move from left to right or right to left, Jaws will announce the
column names, and if you move from top to bottom or bottom to top, Jaws will
read the rows names.
This is very normal, because for example once that you reached on the row
with a certain title then move from left to right using control+alt+right
arrow, you already know on what row you are in, so Jaws needs to read just
the columns names.

Doesn't happen that way in your case?

For example, here is a table example:

<table>
<tr>
<th>column1</th>
<th>column2</th>
<th>column3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell11</td>
<td>cell12</td>
<td>cell13</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell21</td>
<td>cell22</td>
<td>cell23</td>
</tr>
</table>


Octavian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <nfb-web@xxxxxxxxxx>; <blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Shelia Wright" 
<sbwright95@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:50 PM
Subject: table column reading code needed


>
> Good afternoon everyone,
>
>    I'm frantically working to finish a Web site due to be launched on
> Sunday. There are several tables of information on this site that we want 
> to
> be read giving the collumn name followed by the cell content going across
> from left to right. I am aware of code that will force a screen reader to
> announce the collumn hedder before it reads a cell's content permitting 
> the
> blind visitor to know which collumn of text is being voiced by their 
> screen
> reader. right now JAWS reads a row of table data without announce the
> collumn name. I'll give a nexample below and what I want to have a screen
> reader do when it encounters text in a table.
>
>    Here is a table's collumns:
>
> First Name Last Name City State
>
> Normally a screen reader will read the data in a row as follows:
> Peter Donahue San Antonio Texas
>
>    Here is what I want to make happen when a screen reader encounters text
> in a table when it reads through a row of cell data:
> First Name: Peter
> Last Name: Donahue
> City: San Antonio
> State: Texas
>
> I would appreciate it if someone knows how to set up the table so a screen
> reader will interpret a row's content by announcing the collumn hedder
> before reading a cell's data I'll appreciate that a lot. A table example 
> of
> how to set this up would be even better as I'm in a tight deadline and 
> need
> this fix stat!! Your assistance will be grately appreciated.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
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