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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 23, 2013 4:29PM

Hi Jason

Glad you've found this discussion useful.
Large data tables can work quite well, provided they are properly
marked up (column and row headers). Offering Excel spreadsheet as an
alternative format often works, as Excel is both very useful and
accessible for all types of data work, and those who would request
downloads of this type of info are probably comfortable using Excel.
At least, if you have the sheets and you can allow users to download
them, it is definitely one way to increase accessibility to your data.
At least I always download all my banking info in the Excel format (I
used Excel as a risk analyst for years, though I must point out both
banks I worked for went under, talk about accessibility issues, lol,
of course I also should point out I left the banks before they went
under).
-B

On 1/23/13, COLLIER, Jason < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Sounds really cool! Not sure I'll convince my bosses to go that far, but
> we'll see :)
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> Jason
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