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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 10, 2014 11:50AM

Todd,
The first table should be fine. I'm using Acrobat 11.0.06 and I know that we did address an earlier bug that resulted in this error, so perhaps check for updates to Acrobat?
Thanks,
AWK

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Subject: [WebAIM] Table regularity in PDF documents

Hello all.

I have a table with 3 columns and 5 rows. In the header row, the second headers spans 2 columns. Initially, it was tagged as:

<table>
<caption>
<tr>
<th>
<th> (with a colspan property of 2)
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>

When tagged this way, the Acrobat full check and PAC 2.0 check reports an error with table regularity - to be expected.

When tagged as:

<table>
<caption>
<tr>
<th>
<th> (with a colspan property of 2)
<td> (added for regularity)
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>

The Acrobat full check reports no errors while PAC reports a warning with possible issue with regularity.

So, am I to understand the second method is the correct, but it seems wrong to me to have to add the third <td> tag.

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