Gday all,
We're all agreed that tables should only be used for tabular data, and
should be marked up properly for accessibility.
*WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 links about table accessibility and specific markup*
WCAG 1.0 Checkpoint 5.2 says For data tables that have two or more
logical levels of row
Steve Green wrote:
I am tempted to say that this is a moot point. In my experience complex data
tables are inaccessible to screen reader users because they have great
difficulty forming a mental model of them. Marking them up perfectly
semantically doesn't help.
If you use 'normal' means of
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
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Sent: 02 November 2009 01:35
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Complex data tables, accessibility and XHTML Basic 1.1
Steve Green wrote:
I am tempted to say
Hi Kat,
That really depends - without user research it's hard to know what
conclusions about the data are relevant and of interest to people consuming
that data; plus if the purpose is for people to draw their own conclusions
(hence why you're *providing *all that data) then it doesn't make sense
