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Re: Guidelines for tables in Word

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From: Karen Sorensen
Date: May 22, 2013 3:16PM

Hi Jay,
I think that's a great question.
Here's the priority I think they should have:

1. Assign a header row
2. "Repeat as header row at the top of each page"

Alt text and captioning are supplement when it comes to tables with
tabular data in MS Word, in my opinion. If you have an adequate description
of the table and its purpose in the page content, I don't think you need
them.

Assigning the first column only benefits sighted users. It doesn't actually
markup the first column as row headers (unless this has been updated in MS
2013).

I hadn't thought of bookmarking a table, but sounds like a good thing to do
for everyone's usability.

Best,

Karen

Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
www.pcc.edu/access
Portland Community College
971-722-4720