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From: Steve Vosloo
Date: Aug 7, 2002 1:04AM

On your 2nd issue (thought it appropriate to create a new thread):

Also related (in my mind at least) are questions about repeating the
same link text for links that go to different places when the links are
tabularized. The example I have in mind here is for campus links for
different Student Services at http://www.umassonline.net/services/. I
know this violates the WAI Priority 2 link text checkpoint; how would
others handle this? One possibility is the title field.

I'm also stuck on this point ... I suppose it depends on how much
support the TITLE attribute has. Anyone got any advice?

Steve




"Lori K. Brown" wrote:

> Dear WebAIM:
>
> I work on a web-based collaboration software product called SiteScape
> Forum. We are attempting to make the HTML that our product renders
> standards compliant and accessible in the coming version.
>
> In a number of instances we list entries in a table, and the first few

> columns of data include a checkbox that users can click to select the
> item for deletion. Currently, the column that contains that checkbox
> does not have any heading text above it, and there's really no logical

> (at least to us) space available in the table to render a label for
> each instance of the checkbox. Repetitive labeling ('this is the
> deletion
> checkbox') seems pretty pointless, and a waste of screen real estate.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Does every column of a data table HAVE to have some kind of text
> heading? I understand that column headings should be associated with
> the data they label, but do I in fact need to supply headings in the
> first place? (I think it's common sense, but we cannot come to
> agreement on this in my dept.)
>
> 2) Can I solve this problem by using a title attribute on the checkbox

> to label it for text reader users, since the purpose of the check box
> is readily apparent to sighted users?
>
> To make it easier to tell what the heck I'm talking about, I have
> uploaded a screen capture of the table I am talking about at:
> http://www.sitescape.com/other/tableslabels.gif
>
> The columns that do have headings above them are associated with their

> appropriate data with the tag scope="blah", as appropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Lori K. Brown
> User Interface Engineer
> SiteScape, Inc.
>
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