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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Re: [office] use cases for "is-subtable" attribute
Lars,
The bottom line is a blind user is navigating a spreadsheet and when you drop in a subtable the reference to the cells does not match the underlying header. Blind users use the grid structure and headings to maintain a point of reference. When that is not consistent the user gets lost. We ran into this problem working with freedom scientific and our ODF 1.1 support by the Notes 8 Productivity Editors. The JAWS developer, who is blind, got lost and asked that we correct the issue.
Please see section 3.3 of this document. It is pretty self explanatory. Here you will see the use .B2.B1 under a row header of C1. The user is lost.
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/download.php/24546/ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_26_5July2007.odt
Hope this answers your question.
Cheers,
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
07/09/2007 12:23 PM |
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