[Nfb-web] table column reading code needed

[Tony Olivero]

Peter,

See this article at Web Aim:

http://www.webaim.org/techniques/tables/data.php

It provides a tutorial and sample code. Note, that the techniques
described require the user to use the screen reader's table navigation
commands, at least in JAWS.

HTH,
Tony


On Fri, September 28, 2007 14:50, Peter Donahue wrote:
>
> 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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