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Re: Examples of and justification for id/headers in complex tables

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From: tedd
Date: May 23, 2007 9:10AM

>Most of the data cells require three headers to properly identify the
>info. For instance, a few rows down, the "2.64" value needs to be
>tied to "Summer Bridge Students", "Mean GPA" *and* "Biology 100". So
>I set it up (correctly, I hope) using the ID/headers scheme.
>
>I suppose one could argue (as the person who responded to your
>Working Group posts might) that SCOPE alone could work if the info
>were broken in to separate table. But the single table seems pretty
>clear to me, visually, and I hate to make it *less* clear and compact
>just to make it accessible, if there is a mark-up scheme that ties
>all the headers to their respective data.

I don't know for certain, but this seems to make sense:

http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm#(o)

However, please forgive me if I am mistaken, but I think that Laura
is supporting using headers and id's instead of scope.

In the examples given in the above link, it appears that scope may be
easier to implement and to be used for accessibility. But, I am still
in the dark about full extent of this.

Cheers,

tedd


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