C#-APP WinFORM Want to Hide DataGridView Row 0 or Start Index base with 1 insteadof 0

[RickPowell]

I am writing a WinForm application in C#, .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005. It must be Section 508 compliant; i.e. ACCESSIBILITY features on. My main tester, a blind person, would like his Reader (JAWS 8.0) to say ROW 1... instead of ROW 0, when tabbing through the cells/rows.

It would be ideal if there was some property or backdoor method for me to set the DataGridView indexing at 1 instead of 0. Anyone know of such a trick?

Meanwhile, I have tried to insert a dummy row 0, and then set it's visibility to false. I have looked thru this forum and others, and every indication is that I should be able to hide that row, but my code is not doing it.

I will try to boil the code down to a simple example and post it here.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Rick