> In Michael Paciello's book, "Web Accessibility for People with
> Disabilities", he describes a method on pages 112-118 that is
> supposed to
> allow you to do what you are describing with the script you propose to
> write.

I've finally gotten a hold of a copy of Paciello's book and the suggestions
he has for tagging a table so that the content can be parsed, with labels,
down to the individual cell appears to be complete.  The question, however,
is whether any browser/screen reader combination actually uses all this
information as he intended.  I couldn't help but notice the many times he
said things like, "This construction enables a screen reader to present..."
with out confirming that any screen readers actually do.  I'm concerned that
this is a little like the longdesc tag none of the current generation of
browser support.

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Paul Chapin
Curricular Computing Specialist
Amherst College
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