Does this mean that I can use tables vs.learning how
to use CSS?

--- Paul Chapin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I believe this would depend on how the page is
> structured and the screen
> reader being used.
>
> Usually this is done using a table with the
> navigation items being in the
> left cell.  Older readers had the annoying habit of
> reading left to right
> across cells so for a two cell table you'd hear the
> first line of the first
> cell then the first line of the second cell, the
> second line of the first
> cell, the second line of the second cell and so on
> making the table pretty
> difficult to understand.
>
> More recent readers, and my experience is limited to
> JAWS, tend to be
> smarter about tables and treat each cell as a unit
> so if you have a cell
> with navigation on the left and the rest of the page
> in a cell to the right,
> it would read all the navigation and then the body
> of the page.
>
> Paul Chapin
> Curricular Computing Specialist
> Amherst College


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