I've not found a good text editor that handles tables well. I can
navigate tables in Open Office ok but it doesn't give me any context as
to the column and row I am in. The odd thing is that in the window
chrome at the bottom it has the actual text I want such as
TableTitle:A3
which is the name of the table and my cursor is in the first column and
the third row. Only workaround I could come up with was to set a VO hot
spot on the chrome with VM-Shift-Number (usually number 1) and then set
VO to announce changes in the hotspot with VO-command-shift-number
(usually number 1). Of course to set that up I need to first get into a
table because otherwise that location in the chrome is simply read as
'blank text'. So the process is to navigate somewhere in a table, stop
interacting with scroll area, VO down once and right until I get to the
spot with the table name row:header (VO-right 7 times), set the hotspot,
then return back to the content area. From then on VO will announce the
columns and rows as I move around the table. Not great, but it kinda works.
CB
Mary Otten wrote:
Thanks, James, for that speedy reply. I have not yet bought any application for word processing hoping to benefit from others' experiences and just get one app that will do the job. I don't mind tables on the Windows side in Word with Window Eyes or Jaws. But prior to the implementation of good support for them by the screen reader vendors, they were indeed horrible, so I sympathize with your frustration with trying to use tables without good accessibility support.
Mary
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