In this video, we're going to go on to format our table,
to ensure that it has header rows and header columns.
We will also put in some visual formatting.
To bring up the table menus, you need to be inside the table.
You can put the cursor anywhere inside the table either by
clicking with the mouse and then the menus appear,
or by using the arrow keys.
Let's go to the table design menu.
I'm going to use the keyboard, ALT and JT.
The first thing I want to do, is
make sure that the word header row and first column are checked.
This should be done by default,
but if those boxes are not checked, they may need to be.
Let's uncheck them for now.
With these boxes
unchecked, there are no header rows and no header columns.
That means that all of the data is is really quite random.
If I give it a header row, then when a screen reader reads it,
from any given cell, it will also announce the header.
So for example, in this box, it will announce the time 8:00,
but it will also let me know that it was breakfast.
By checking the first column,
it will also tell me which day of the week that meal was,
but visually it looks no different.
So to style it visually, I'm going to select from the table styles menu.
Again, you can use the keyboard for this or the mouse.
There are some plain tables at the top.
One of those might be appropriate,
but I'm going to choose one with some colour in it
and I want one that's got a header row and a header column,
so I'm going to choose this one.
And now
if I uncheck the header row, it's
much easier to see how that affects it.
So with it unchecked, breakfast, lunch and dinner are just regular cells.
With it checked, they've been designated
as headers.
Now let's see how JAWS reads this.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Monday, 6:30, 12:00, 5:30.
Tuesday, 8:00, 1:30, 7:00.
Wednesday, 7:00.
12:30, 6:00.
Thursday, 5:30, 12:15, 5:00.
Friday, 9:30, 1:00, 6:30.
Lunch, Wednesday,
1230, column three of four, row four of six.
Breakfast, Thursday, 5:30,
column two of four, row five of six
Tuesday, column one of four, row three of six.
Dinner, Tuesday, 7:00,
Column four of four, row three of six.
Dinner. Friday, 6:30,
column four of four, row six of six.
Last cell in table.
Warning - pressing tab here adds an extra row.