[Athen] screen readers recognizing tables on webpages

[Jennifer Sutton]

Robert and others:

To complicate this issue is that I am seeing that different AT and 
browser combos are treating tables differently. As far as I can tell, 
it's not related to how they're coded, necessarily. It is becoming an 
issue of, I believe, screen readers trying to do some "intelligent 
guessing" about whether a table is being used for layout or data.

And in my experience, it would be better if the screen readers did not 
do this kind of "thinking."

Perhaps others can spell out the specifics; I have not done systematic 
testing, yet.

Jennifer

On 9/19/2016 11:53 AM, Robert Beach wrote:

>

> Hey all,

>

> I had a very interesting situation.  I was working in Canvas and came 

> across a list of items.  Supposedly this was a table with three 

> columns.  In Internet Explorer, neither JAWS nor NVDA would recognize 

> it as a table but did read the information.  Unfortunately I could not 

> tell what items were in which columns.  Using FireFox, JAWS still did 

> not recognize the table, but NVDA did.

>

> Is this a matter of the way the instructor created the table?  Is it a 

> matter of the LMS using non-standard code?  I would like to let the 

> instructor know how to fix this if it is possible for him to do so.

>

> Thanks.

>

> Robert Lee Beach

>

> Assistive Technology Specialist

>

> Kansas City Kansas Community College

>

> 7250 State Avenue

>

> Kansas City, KS  66112

>

> Phone: 913-288-7671

>

> Email: rbeach at kckcc.edu <mailto:rbeach at kckcc.edu>

>

>

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