[Nfb-web] table column reading code needed

[Robert Sellers]

Hi, coming from someone who   spends a lot of time working in Excel, unless
the spreadsheet has 15 or 20 coluns.  After reviewing a few rows of data the
column title becomes apparent and no longer is needed to be announced. Even
with many columns it takes a little longer to relate the data to the column.

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:51 AM
To: programmingblind at freelists.org
Cc: nfb-web at nfbnet.org; Shelia Wright; blindwebbers at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Nfb-web] 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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