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Re: Table Header/Footer/Body Placement and Reading Order

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Sep 22, 2011 2:45AM

hi vincent,

[thead] [tfoot] [tbody] elements are not included in the accessble tree
exposed to AT. (and example of what is exposed by Firefox can be seen using
the DOM inspector > accessible tree feature.

I don't know of any AT that take notice of the [thead] [tfoot] [tbody]
elements.

I would suggest that the only thing that affects table reading order is the
order of rows and cells in the code.

regards
Stevef

On 21 September 2011 19:23, Vincent Young < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> So the HTML specification says construct tables in the following order:
>
> [thead] [tfoot] [tbody]
>
> I've user tested tables, but none when tfoot was involved. Assistive
> tecnology tends to read tfoot before any tbody information. Does this
> cause
> any usability issues? I've not seen this really discussed anywhere such as
> on WebAim's accessible tables article. I tend to use thead/tfoot/tbody for
> semantic purposes, I guess. It's also really easy to style each
> differently through CSS with these elements in place.
> Thoughts/opinions/whatevers?
>
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