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Nicole
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Question about accessible tables . . . - 3/6/2007 3:38:25
What do you guys use to make certain that a table is being read out properly be a screen reader?
I thought that by correctly offering a table summary, caption and using <th> for the top row, the table would be read out with the first column entry followed by the first colum's <th>, then the content of cell 1, then the <th> of column 2, then the contents of cell 2 etc.
Admittedly I've just checked using the Firefox Extension "Speak-It", which probably has some flaws, but I was surprised that it read my table out most confusingly. Here is the html for my table:
<table class="sevencolumn" summary="This table shows the practice times for all squads during Fall" width="100%">
<caption>Fall Practice Times</caption>
<tr>
<th class="seven1">Squad</th>
<th class="seven2">Monday</th>
<th class="seven3">Tuesday</th>
<th class="seven4">Wednesday</th>
<th class="seven5">Thursday</th>
<th class="seven6">Friday</th>
<th class="seven7">Saturday</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">White<br />45 minute practice<br />Choose any 2</td>
<td class="seven2">3.40pm<br />4.30pm<br />5.20pm<br />6.10pm</td>
<td class="seven3">3.40pm<br />4.30pm<br />5.20pm<br />6.10pm</td>
<td class="seven4">3.40pm<br />4.30pm<br />5.20pm<br />6.10pm</td>
<td class="seven5">3.40pm<br />4.30pm<br />5.20pm<br />6.10pm</td>
<td class="seven6">3.40pm<br />4.30pm<br />5.20pm</td>
<td class="seven7">No Practice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">Red<br />1 hour practice</td>
<td class="seven2">6.00pm</td>
<td class="seven3">6.00pm</td>
<td class="seven4">6.00pm</td>
<td class="seven5">6.00pm</td>
<td class="seven6">6.00pm</td>
<td class="seven7">10.00am</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">Black<br />1.5 hour practice</td>
<td class="seven2">4.30pm</td>
<td class="seven3">4.30pm</td>
<td class="seven4">4.30pm</td>
<td class="seven5">4.30pm</td>
<td class="seven6">4.30pm</td>
<td class="seven7">8.30am</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">Senior<br />2 hour practice</td>
<td class="seven2">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven3">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven4">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven5">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven6">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven7">8.00am</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">National<br />2.25 hour practice</td>
<td class="seven2">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven3">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven4">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven5">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven6">4.00pm</td>
<td class="seven7">8.00am</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="seven1">Masters / Gold<br />1 hour practice</td>
<td class="seven2">7.00pm</td>
<td class="seven3">7.00pm</td>
<td class="seven4">7.00pm</td>
<td class="seven5">7.00pm</td>
<td class="seven6">No Practice</td>
<td class="seven7">No Practice</td>
</tr>
</table><!-- end sevencolumn -->
One thing I did find with "Speak-It", is that it read out all times like:
4.30pm - four point three zero p m
except for the last two rows where it pronounced it as 4.30pm?
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RE: Question about accessible tables . . . - 3/6/2007 4:30:48
Thanks Jaybee,
I'm trying the row header at the moment, first attempt gave the same result though, still trying. . .
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RE: Question about accessible tables . . . - 3/6/2007 5:16:26
I didn't have Opera Voice set up and have just tried to set it up and it's not working for some reason. Will look into that in a sec, and btw, Opera is doing some funny things with the overall text size on my page so I'll try and figure that out a bit later too.
A subsequent question though:
I don't know if anyone has copied my code and tried it in a browser, but in the first column I have a heading called "Red" etc, and then "one hour practice" underneath.
"Red" is the swimming squad name and the "1 hour practice" is a subsequent comment that I'd prefer to appera not bold, but as I've just made the first column all <th>, all text in that column appears bold. I've tried introducing a <span> with font-size "normal", but it just doesn't seem to change it. The appearance I'm trying to get in the left column is:
Red
1 hour session
Does anyone know if I can have this appearance in a column using <th>?
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