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Table with row headings
I followed the directions given here and JAWS still doesn't announce the row headers with the data cells when moving from one row to another. Has anyone found a solution in the past 2 years?
Thanks for following up here, BelindaSpohn, and I’m really glad you shared what you’re seeing with JAWS!
You’re right, even when using the recommended approaches today, screen readers don’t consistently announce row headers with their associated data cells in Storyline or Rise. That’s a known limitation, and at the moment, there isn’t a way to make tables with both row and column headings behave as fully semantic, accessible tables for screen readers.
This is valuable feedback, especially coming from real-world testing with assistive technology. I’ve shared this specific scenario with our product team as accessibility feedback, since proper support for both row and column headers is an important requirement for 508 and WCAG compliance, not just a workaround situation.
I appreciate you revisiting this and calling it out again. These follow-ups help us better understand where the current tools fall short and where improvements would have the biggest impact for authors and learners alike.