[Athen] question re Excel and accessible html

[Prof Norm Coombs]

Thanks for everyone's reply.

What I was trying to do was the following.

If I take a spreadsheet and make Excel define the row and column for 
headers, the spreadsheet remembers that and anyone else accessing the 
spreadsheet and using JAWS will have JAWS automatically read the headers as 
well as the cells as a person moves around the sheet.

I was trying to get the HTML page to keep that information and to make the 
screen reader work in the html spreadsheet like in the excel version.

I guess I am wanting too much.
At 09:33 PM 3/19/2008, you wrote:

>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

> >

> >

> >-----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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