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hi. a blind it student doing a web based audio space invaders game for the blind. pulled different bits of code from different tutorials to learn. now, need some mentoring. if any javascript or scripting gurus here, need your help. have done the code, but not sure if it is right, can some one help me out and take a look, then show me a better way to do things. then i then need to go and find a mespeak.js speech api, and then some more human voices, and see if i can find a tutorial. about how to speak out the objects on the screen, and also then just need multiplayer, regions area, updates, and then play over the internet. if this is not the right place, then i apologise. i use a screen reader jaws for windows from http://www.freedomscientific.com, and using windows 10 64 bit pro on a toshiba satellite pro c-50-a. so, if some one can work with me and help me out, did do a text based text to speech hangman game in visual basic 2010 in 2012. now first time doing a web based game. so i need a gentle push in the right direction, so sort of stuck at the moment. can any one help. if this is not the right forum, did post on scripting, but heard from no one. can any one help. thanks.

I love the way W3Schools provides "Browser Support" information for HTML and CSS references! That feature has been invaluable as the development projects I'm on move to HTML 5. The move to HTML 5 is also including a better focus on Web Content Accessibility. Over the last year or so I've started to wish that you had a similar support feature with respect to Screen Readers. I know that this gets complicated very quickly due to the fact that most screen readers operate on particular OS's, and in conjunction with whatever browser (and browser version) the user prefers, but still a very basic matrix could be very useful. Some suggested Screen Reader + OS + Browser combinations: JAWS on Windows 7 with Chrome NVDA on Windows 7 with IE11 JAWS on Window 8 with IE11 JAWS on Windows 10 with Edge VoiceOver on Apple OSX with Safari VoiceOver on Apple OSX with Chrome VoiceOver on iOS with Safari TalkBack on Android 5.0 with Chrome I generated my list by choosing the most popular OS's, browsers and Screen Readers (I'll cite my sources if that becomes an issue). My list is obviously lacking any mention of Firefox which should probably be squeezed in somewhere. Do a few, do them all, add in whatever other configurations you happen to test - any additional info you could add would be great! I know this is a huge wishlist item, but it would assist many people in making better choices for producing web content that is accessible across the broadest range of technology.

Hi,While testing the table (pls see below) in Jaws, noticed that Jaws didn't recognize the Header 2 and the cells related to this header.Do I have to treat this table as a complex table with headers and ids?Before, I was pretty sure that rowgroup and colgroup values should help improve accessibility in this kind of tables. Maybe, it is because different screen reader tools work differently.PLs advice.Thank you!<table><caption>Table's caption</caption><tr> <th scope="col">Header 1</th> <th scope="col">Header 2</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" colspan="2">Header row 1</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell 1-1</td> <td>Cell 1-2</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" colspan="2">Header row 2</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell 2-1</td> <td>Cell 2-2</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" colspan="2">Header row 3</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell 3-1</td> <td>Cell 3-2</td> </tr></table>