[Nfb-web] table column reading code needed

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

Is this completely wise?
A table with 40-50 rows would become annoying when you know what the columns 
are.
Bryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <programmingblind at freelists.org>
Cc: <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>; "Shelia Wright" <sbwright95 at earthlink.net>; 
<blindwebbers at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:50 PM
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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