[Athen] question re Excel and accessible html

[John Gardner]

Hi.  Well I still don't see any problem.  I exported from Excel to HTML and
could read it fine with either screen reader in IE. 

John

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Patrick Burke
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:47 PM
To: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: Re: [Athen] question re Excel and accessible html

Hi John, Norm & all,

Jaws table commands in IE are: Control-Alt-Arrow keys to move around the
table (Control-Alt-Numpad 5 to read current cell).

I have gotten Excel files to export successfully in the past, using the .mht
filetype. (Lots of extra frames & things around, but the table itself came
through in readable form.)

Hope this helps,
Patrick

At 03:25 PM 3/19/2008, John Gardner wrote:

>Hi Norm, I guess I don't understand what the problem is. Excel gives 

>you two choices - a single file web page and a standard htm/html page.  

>I tried both, and both saved as perfectly respectable web tables.  

>Maybe the problem is Jaws?  These web pages read just fine with 

>Window-Eyes.  I have Jaws but don't know how to navigate web tables 

>with Jaws.  If somebody will tell me how, I'll try it.

>

>John

>

>

>John

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On 

>Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs

>Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:17 PM

>To: athen-athenpro.org

>Subject: [Athen] question re Excel and accessible html

>

>I am trying to find a way that a faculty member not knowing a html 

>authoring tool can save a spreadsheet in an html format a screen reader 

>can use.  Just saving as html JAWS seems to treat it as if it were just one

long column.

>

>I tried to paste it into Dreamweaver to see if it would do something 

>down and dirty.  I got the html but no better than saving to html from 

>excel

>

>

>Any ideas??

>Norm

>

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