Someday aria-colindex and aria-rowindex might allow for some very strange tables, but in the meantime NVDA should be more robust at handling tables with hidden cells.
Here's an example table. When you use NVDA's table navigation keystrokes it gets confused and gives the wrong feedback when navigating to a hidden cell.
<style>
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 1em;
}
*[aria-hidden="true"] {
background-color: #ffd;
}
</style>
<table>
<tr>
<th>A</th>
<th>B</th>
<th>C</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Northwest</td>
<td>North</td>
<td aria-hidden="true">Northeast (hidden)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>West</td>
<td aria-hidden="true">Center (hidden)</td>
<td>East</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td aria-hidden="true">Southwest (hidden)</td>
<td>South</td>
<td>Southeast</td>
</tr>
</table>
Someday aria-colindex and aria-rowindex might allow for some very strange tables, but in the meantime NVDA should be more robust at handling tables with hidden cells.
Here's an example table. When you use NVDA's table navigation keystrokes it gets confused and gives the wrong feedback when navigating to a hidden cell.