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From: Randy Pearson
Date: Sep 15, 2004 9:26AM

Apologies for thread creep, but this topic so similar to the current:

We have some web-based tables of numbers, wherein a healthy percentage of
the
cells' value is 0. To draw visual attention to the non-0 cells, some have
suggested blanking out the 0's, so those cells are empty. Is there an
accessibility argument against doing this? It would seem so, as the concept
of "blank meaning 0" may not be obvious via screen reading or other
alternative
types of access.

Any opinions welcome!

-- Randy

> I need more information about the situation you describe. If
> you mean the cell at column 1 row 1 is blank that is no problem. No need
> for id or text. Please provide more information.