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Re: Data Tables in Higher Ed

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From: Pamela Riesmeyer
Date: Oct 11, 2012 11:59AM

Sarah, thanks so much for this! This will help a lot. I appreciate all of
the input. This is a big issue for us.

Pam

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The Government of Canada is putting together an impressive Web Experience
> Toolkit (WET). One of the features I came across is their "HTML Table
> Validator".
>
> http://wet-boew.github.com/wet-boew/demos/tableparser/validator-htmltable.html
> As long as you have correctly identified table heading cells (TH), the
> script will figure out the relationships and assign IDs and HEADERs
> correctly. You can then copy and paste the generated code. It's like magic,
> only better, because it's real.
>
> Background information, related WCAG references, examples, etc., are
> available at
> http://wet-boew.github.com/wet-boew/demos/tableparser/index-eng.html
>
> sb
>
> Sarah E. Bourne
> Director of Assistive Technology &
> Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
> Information Technology Division
> Commonwealth of Massachusetts
> 1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
> 617-626-4502
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://www.mass.gov/itd
> > > >



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