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Now, we have 5 headers that need work: Year, 2024, Weeks 1-8, Weeks 9-18, and Regular Season Wins. Each of these headers need meaningful IDs. Acrobat creates ID’s automatically, but they are a series of random letters and numbers, so they will be harder to identify. For each of the 5 headers noted earlier, we need to give each of them a unique name. To do this, right click on each of those tags and click Table Cell Properties. In the Table Cell Properties box, go to the Attribute section. In ID, type a name. For our example, we will keep the header names as the IDs. So the ID for “Year” will be “Year.”
To create an association, click the green plus sign in the Table Cell Properties box. Repeat the process for all of the headers in the order you want the screen reader to read the table in. When you are done, click OK.
Note: As screen readers read a table cell, they should announce the corresponding headers in the order opposite to that displayed in the Associated Header Cell IDs list (so, from bottom to top). However, in reality, this does not work perfectly and sometimes they are announced out of order. Also, if you make an error here, you cannot rearrange the order displayed by simply dragging and dropping. You'll need to delete and re-add the ID.
Finally, create the header associations for the remaining cells. Then test your page with a screen reader.
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