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RE: Tables for layout

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From: Jukka Korpela
Date: Mar 20, 2002 7:05AM

Sharon Daniels wrote:

> So if you are laying out a form, it is considered a data table?

No, my point was that the structured data in a table could consist of form
fields and corresponding texts (labels), among other things. It would make
perfect sense to refer to cell by its row and column indexes, or row and
column names, like "row 'email', column 'input'". In fact, the entire
content of the table could be meaningfully presented as a sequence of
triplets (row name, column name, cell content). This is something that
normally doesn't make any sense for a layout table.

If you created form containing, say, a two-column table where the first
column contains a set of fields on top of each other and the other column
contains the rest of the fields, just to "save space", then this would
basically be a layout table. (And a serious accessibility problem,
especially to screen readers that read just lines of text on screen.)

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Jukka Korpela
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