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Re: Data Tables in Higher Ed

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From: Corbett, James
Date: Oct 11, 2012 1:19PM

Sarah:

Yes, I'm currently working on the WET 2.0 conversion and have been testing the WET 3.0 templates with the interest of implmenting such to the public facing sites.

Jim

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Sent: October 11, 2012 1:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Data Tables in Higher Ed

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
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http://www.mass.gov/itd