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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Aug 21, 2012 3:25PM

I wonder if perhaps you and your developer have wandered too far into the semantic weeds. (This happens to me all the time.) While he may be right that it isn't a "header," it still is defining or describing what is in the cells across from it, so it's functioning as a header. If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, I suggest treating it like a duck. Let' say that first column is "last name". If I'm 8 columns over, under the "annual salary" heading, I would want some indication of which row I'm on, and "last name" is probably as good as anything. (If it's not, then you may need to use the headers/id method.)

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