The screen reader announces all headers in a column when they are in a cell in a rowgroup

[hasanmubarok9]

Example:

   <table>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>Name</th>
          <th>Hometown</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody role="rowgroup">
        <tr>
          <th scope="col">Hasan</th>
          <th>Jakarta</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Description of Hasan</td>
          <td>Description of Jakarta</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
      <tbody role="rowgroup">
        <tr>
          <th scope="col">Kevin</th>
          <th>Melbourne</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Description of Kevin</td>
          <td>Description of Melbourne</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a web page containing example table above in Chromium-based browser (e.g., Edge or Chrome)
2. Direct NVDA to read the table

Actual behavior:

table  with 5 rows and 2 columns  row 1  Hasan
Kevin  column 1  Name
Jakarta
Melbourne  column 2  Hometown
row 2  Name
Kevin  column 1  Hasan
Hometown
Melbourne  column 2  Jakarta
row 3  Name
Hasan
Kevin  column 1  Description of Hasan
Hometown
Jakarta
Melbourne  column 2  Description of Jakarta
row 4  Name
Hasan  column 1  Kevin
Hometown
Jakarta  column 2  Melbourne
row 5  Name
Hasan
Kevin  column 1  Description of Kevin
Hometown
Jakarta
Melbourne  column 2  Description of Melbourne

Expected behavior:

table  with 5 rows and 2 columns  row 1
column 1  Name
column 2  Hometown
row 2  Name column 1  Hasan
Hometown column 2  Jakarta
row 3  Name Hasan column 1  Description of Hasan
Hometown Jakarta column 2  Description of Jakarta
row 4  Name column 1  Kevin
Hometown column 2  Melbourne
row 5  Name Kevin  column 1  Description of Kevin
Hometown Melbourne  column 2  Description of Melbourne

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

NVDA version:

NVDA 2023.2

Windows version:

Windows 11 Enterprise

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Other information about your system:

Other questions

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Same issue observed in 2023.1

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