I would recommend making the footnote refs hyperlinks.  In Window-Eyes, you
have to turn off table reading mode whenever you want to activate a
hyperlink, but that makes sense, since this action will probably jump you
out of the table anyway.

At 10:51 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote:
>One of our web developer approached me with an interesting question. He is
remediating a web site that has financial tables. In one table, certain
header and data cells contain footnotes.
>
>What is the preferred approach to ensure that the footnotes are screen
reader accessible? We have two ideas:
>
>Approach 1: Use inline links, i.e.,
>
><a href="#footnote1" title="Footnote 1"><sup>*</sup></a>
>
>Approach 2: Make the footnote an abbr so that it is read inline, i.e.,
>
><td abbr="Footnote 1: *></td>
>
>Alan
>
>Alan Cantor
>Project Manager
>Strategic e-Government Implementation
>e-Government, OCCS
>416-212-1152
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