Loyd brings up an interesting possibility inadvertantly.  If you put the
foot notes in a cell at the end of the table, a person could just use their
JAWS or Window Eyes table movement keystrokes to quickly get to the end and
read.


At 10:19 AM 1/29/03 , you wrote:
>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
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