Hi,
I wrote about this in my computer literacy training course which I designed
while teaching in South Africa. Here's the extract you might find useful as
per your query, but please understand you will need to know how to navigate
dialog boxes and the ribbon menu using the screen-reader because at this
point of the course we have already completed learning those things, so this
is a little more advanced discussion:
Creating Tables
The easiest way to create a table is as follows:
Go to Insert on the Ribbon menu, then control left and right arrow to the
Table group box sub menu and press enter on it. Up Arrow to Insert table and
press enter.
Now you will land in a dialog box beginning with 2 edit spin boxes asking
for the number of columns and rows. Tab between these controls. Make your
selection either by typing or arrowing through the options. There is a set
of radio buttons with "Fixed column width" selected by default. Change this
to "Auto fit to contents". Tab to the Ok button and press it.
Notice the table shows up in your document, and the screen-reader reports
the number of rows and columns when your cursor enters into it as you
navigate.
The good thing about this kind of table for the screen-reader user is that
the size of the cells changes to fit the contents as you add data into the
cells of the table, so you do not need to be concerned about the size of the
cells accommodating your input data for your sighted readers.
You can navigate to the cells in all 4 directions inside the table simply by
holding control and alt down with your left hand, then with your right hand,
use your arrow keys to move through columns with left and right arrows, and
through rows using up and down arrows. To edit the contents, let go of the
Control and Alt keys, type in your text, and navigate the cell using the
text navigation commands we have already learnt.
Kind regards,
Yamuna Jivana Dasa
-----Original Message-----
From: Minar Singh
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2022 1:41 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: [AI] MS word table query
Hello team,
I'm trying to create a table in MS Word but the content is behaving
against my will. I want to prevent content from 1st column and 1st row
spreading in to the 2nd column and 2nd row and so on.. I had tried to
implement various techniques but no use. I have explored various
settings applicable for rows and columns but didn' work for me. Any
technique is welcome.
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