Find and Seek: Assessing the Impact of Table Navigation on Information Look-up with a Screen Reader
Kristin Williams, Taylor Clarke, Steve Gardiner, John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic · 2019 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
This paper challenges the widely held assumption that HTML tables are inherently inaccessible to screen reader users. Web designers use visual cues like layout, typography, and spatial grouping to help sighted users navigate and understand page content, but screen readers…
screen readers · web accessibility · table navigation · spatial layout · cognitive load