These forums are now Read Only. If you have an Acrobat question, ask questions and get help from one of our experts.

Screen Readers and Tables

Forum Index > Accessibility > Screen Readers and Tables
2008-02-11 12:05:46
dsynk
Registered: Jan 22 2008
Posts: 2

I'm using Acrobat 8 Pro. Is there a way to set up a table so a screen reader will read the header of cells' columns before it reads the contents of each cell?

The document I'm working on is a tagged PDF and I don't have access to the original document. I used the Touch Up Reading Order tool to define the table and the Table Inspector to tag the column headers as header cells. I'm not sure if doing this should have the effect I'm looking for; I can't find any information on this.

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

Thanks,
Danny Synk

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.1, Windows
Top
2008-03-25 10:00:15
#1
DuffJohnson
Expert
Registered: May 30 2006
Posts: 96
If you've correctly tagged the table, then screen-reader users will be able to find the table header cells without difficulty.

As to HOW they read the table, in other words, do they read the TH cells before each TD cell - that's up to them. The point with table tagging is that they CAN access the TH cells anytime they need to do so.

Duff Johnson
w - http://www.duff-johnson.com
t - http://www.twitter.com/duffjohnson

Top