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Re: data or layout table

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From: Angela French
Date: Sep 2, 2011 9:27AM

Jared - could you explain this: " The overhead of the table markup would likely outweigh any potential benefit it would provide." I have a similar situation with the presentation of document downloads on the site I'm working on. They are in tables, and that feels wrong to me.Maybe I'm worrying too much and overkilling it.
Angela French

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 7:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] data or layout table

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> What would be ideal from a screenreader perspective? From a visual
> browser perspective it's irrelevant what I choose.

If the natural reading order of the table (left to right, top to
bottom) is logical and makes sense, then I would not add table headers. The overhead of the table markup would likely outweigh any potential benefit it would provide.

Jared