Accessibility Improvements: Table Header and Row tagging not implemented

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Todor

Posted on: 14 Nov 2022 11:59

Hello James,

You may use the property AccessibleDescription of the report and its items and sections. The property value is an Expression and it determines what will be the accessibility label when the report is rendered. You may find more details in the articles related to Accessibility support in the corresponding rendering formats and viewers. For example, for the most popular rendering extension and viewer, these would be:

Regards,
Todor
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James

Posted on: 07 Nov 2022 13:52

Thanks, @milen. Looking forward to the release. Let me know if you need beta testers. When you say "please use the exposed Accessibility related properties on the report model" can you clarify which ones you refer to? Regards

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Milen | Product Manager @DX

Posted on: 07 Nov 2022 13:36

Hello James,

Thank you for the shared feedback and ideas on how to improve the accessibility coverage for the Table item. I can completely relate to your pain and see the value in your research. That said, I do not bring good news regarding the expected time frame for addressing this. I believe there is a good chance to include it in the R1 2023 SP release which is expected in mid-February 2023. Meantime, please use the exposed Accessibility related properties on the report model to change the default-generated accessibility attributes as needed.

Regards,
Milen
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James

Posted on: 31 Oct 2022 15:13

Hi Neli,

Is there any hope of addressing this in the near future? I have two reports next month that are both massive (300-500 pages) and each with two-to-three tables per page. I'll need to manually tag the table cells for 508 compliance in the PDF if Telerik cannot. That's several days of work for each report just for the tables. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Neli

Posted on: 26 Aug 2022 09:51

Hello James,

Thank you for the provided information which we will use during the implementation.

Regards,
Neli
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James

Posted on: 19 Aug 2022 15:05

Thanks, Neli. Appreciated. I'm attaching a good overview of PDF/UA tagging requirements.

https://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TaggedPDFBestPracticeGuideSyntax.pdf

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Neli

Posted on: 19 Aug 2022 12:35

Hi James,

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. We consider it as a bug and for that reason, I converted the thread to a bug report.

As a token of gratitude, I updated your Telerik points.

I am afraid that there is no workaround that we can suggest.

Regards,

Neli
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