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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Patrick Burke wrote:

> At 06:54 AM 10/2/2002, Schneider, Katherine S. wrote:
>
> >Has anybody done any work on accessibility of tables on webpages, as in
> >standards or guidelines?  I know 508 and w3c mention them, but they don't
> >seem to provide much concrete guidance.  Kathie
>
>
> Here are two examples:
>
> The "cups of coffee" table from the WCAG Techniques document shows some
> standard markup:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#data-tables
>
> The "Tables Challenge" page from the "Jaws HTML Challenge" uses table
> markup to display the Jaws table navigation keys. If you display the source
> you'll have some markup examples to follow:
> http://www.freedomscientific.com/hTML_challenge/files/tables_challenge.html
>
> The larger HTML Challenge presentation begins at:
> http://www.freedomscientific.com/HTML_challenge/html_challenge.html
>
> Interestingly, we just got a HandyTech Braille Wave display for our lab, &
> it has row & column indicators pop up as I navigate a table (r2c7, r3c1,
> etc., at the left side of the display. This is using Jaws 4.5. Do any other
> Braille displays do this? I haven't run across it before.
>
> Patrick
>