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Re: lift and complex tables

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Mar 7, 2007 7:10AM

On 07/03/07, Moore, Michael < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Lift just tests tables, it does not make them accessible. The free
> editions of the WAVE, WebXact, and Cynthia Says will also allow you to

> test simple and complex tables. Making complex tables accessible
> requires the application of id attributes to the th elements and
> matching those ids to the proper cells using the header attribute in
> the td element. This can be done using any editor capable of editing
> web pages. Dreamweaver, for instance has a good wizard for creating
> accessible tables, or if you just want to be hard core, you can do
> everything in notepad.

That assumes, though, that this is a data, not a layout, table. Gary
didn't say which type it is.

Tim

Quite right Tim, of course the tools that I listed will still allow you
to test to be sure that layout tables linearize properly. WAVE is
particularly good for this function. There are still a large number of
CMS systems in use that only generate table based layouts, and these can
become quite complex. Developers who hand code and still create table
based layouts should, IMHO, be shot. (squirt guns are fine for this
purpose) :)

Mike