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From: Rabab Gomaa
Date: Oct 18, 2013 12:48PM

Hello,=20
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I find those pages provide good examples of table simplification.=20
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/opt-cont/tbl-simp-en.html
http://webaim.org/techniques/tables/data=20
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Rabab
>>> Whitney Quesenbery <whitneyq=40gmail.com> 2013-10-18 2:38 PM >>>
Kurtis,
That=27s a great point. I often work with teams to simplify their
content
into plainer language and clearer presentation. It works for everyone
AND
makes it easier to make documents technically accessible in any
medium.

I talk about it as =22Content for Everyone=22 and find that I get more
traction
that way.

http://www.slideshare.net/whitneyq/content-for-everyone-20599326



On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Kroon, Kurtis=40FTB
<Kurtis.Kroon=40ftb.ca.gov>wrote:

> Another alternative, which we recommend to our content providers, is
to
> simplify the table -- breaking it up into several tables, if
necessary --
> so that it only requires headers with a defined scope.
>
> Of course, it doesn=27t always work that way, but we do try.
>
> Thanks=21
>
> Kurtis Kroon
> Analyst, Web Business Services
> Franchise Tax Board
> 916=C2=B7845=C2=B75603
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Dr=C3=BCmmer =5Bmailto:olaf=40druemmer.com=5D
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:43
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: =5BWebAIM=5D Complex Tables on PDFs
>
> Hi Rabab,
>
> tagged PDF does support IDs and headers to express complex table
cell
> relationships.
>
> In Acrobat Pro it is possible in principle (but not in an elegant or
> efficient fashion) to create IDs for table cells and to referenced
them in
> header entries in other cells. I do not know pif anybody who has
actually
> used this in production (it is just too cumbersome).
>
> For InDesign CS 5.5 and newer axaio (the company I work for) has
created a
> plug-in called MadeToTag (for fully functional demos see
www.axaio.com),
> which makes it relatively easy to prepare complex tables for export
to
> tagged PDF, such that MadeToTag post-processes the InDesign exported
PDF
> and injects the necessary IDs and headers into the table structures.
>
> If I am not mistaken the axesPDF plug-in (developed by xyMedia,
> www.xymedia.ch) for Microsoft Word offers a similar feature for PDFs
> created in Microsoft Word.
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, for complex tables that do have
non-trivial
> column and/or row headers, IDs and headers would be the only way to
tag
> them properly.
>
>
> Olaf
>
>
> Am 17 Oct 2013 um 21:32 schrieb Rabab Gomaa
<Rabab.Gomaa=40inspection.gc.ca
> >:
>
> > I didn=27t see in the PDF WCAG techniques any example on coding
> ID/headers in a PDF.
> > Does this mean that ID/headers are not required for complex tables
in
> PDF? using TR,TH,TD structure is enough?
>
>
>
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