Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Douglas Harold Geoffray

Wesley Allan Witt

Ravi Gupta

Carolina Hernandez

Mariah Sigourney Moon

Cullen Sauls

Matthew Walker Campbell

Vanguri Madhuri

Lindy Rose Le

Jeffrey Allen Bishop

Described herein is a system and method for detecting a layout table by a screen reader. Information regarding a document being displayed by an application is received from an application programming interface of a user interface automation system that provides information regarding user interface elements of application and/or the application. The information includes an indication that the document comprises a table. A determination is made as to whether the table is a data table or a layout table based upon the received information using a rule-based heuristic. When it is determined that the table is a layout table, presentation information associated with the layout table can be skipped over, and, cell data content within the layout table provided. Thus, for a determined layout table, the system and method allow the screen reader to act as if the containing table doesn't exist, but still read the content.

Detection of layout table(s) by a screen reader

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Douglas Harold Geoffray