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Re: When is use of scope, col and/or colgroup important for accessibility?

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jul 24, 2012 9:24PM

Ryan E. Benson wrote:
>
> > If I'm in a one dimensional data table, I just use the appropriate
> > <th> tags to mark up all my table headers.
> At work, I would near -automatically mark this as not compliant.

What?? Explain further. A table with 5 rows and ten columns, with the first
row containing all <th>s for their corresponding columns is fully compliant
per WCAG2 (AFAIK), so why are you failing it?

> I
> would give a bit of leeway if the table in question was 3x3 or under.
> Would I say a 4x2 or 4x3 is not compliant? I do not wish to discuss
> that level of policy here.

Fair enough, but you've just made a pretty broad and sweeping statement that
justifies some more level of reasoning/proof on why you would "fail" it.
Please elaborate.

JF