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JAWS ate my tables
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Dec 24, 2009
Some commenters here suggest that there should be a concerted effort by web designers to kill JAWS, just as there was to kill IE 6.
http://webaim.org/blog/jaws-ate-my-tables/
TRiG.
JAWS ate my tables
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Dec 24, 2009
How odd: Using an old version of JAWS (err Ithink I'm 8 or 9 yeh, 9 Ithink), those two examples of tables they give both* read as data tables, which goes entirely against what they say in the article 
Also they don't seem to mention that the W3C guidelines Iseem to recall are pretty clear that tables should not*be used to determine format; that is Ithink the case in both the W3C WCAG 2.0 and the older 1.0 guidelines... 
Tables did* use to be more of a problem as a lot of sites were using tables to determine page structure/layout, but now as most are heading over to CSS the use of tables to determine page layout is pretty-rare...
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