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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 17, 2014 4:45PM

Thank might work to take out the Music, Art, Drama. Will have to discuss with the content owner. Regarding acronyms, yeah anyone reading this policy manual know that an FTE is a full-time enrolled student. Is there a good way to indicate "non-applicable" to screen readers? Is N/A understood aurally as it is visually?

I understand about the notes being in rows. I did make a note of that one. I'm trying to get all the possible suggestions together before I dive in and present a solution to the content owner.

Thanks!


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Well, one reason it's hard to make heads or tails of is because it's all in acronyms - presumably meaningful to bean counters.

You could simplify the table a great deal if you pulled Music, Art, Drama, Auditorium out of it and put them in a bulleted list below, since they just have one "whatever those things are" across the board.

I'd define the acronyms above the table, and link to the notes below the table, but not in cells.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I took a quick look and could not make heads or tails of it.
> You might need to have specific header cells for each cell defined so
> that each cell has a descriptor of what it is
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> Lucia Greco
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> Hello,
> I came across this table on our website and am wondering if it is
> possible to make it accessible. It looks pretty bad to me.
> It's the one at the bottom of the page.
> http://sbctc.edu/general/policymanual/_a-policymanual-ch6Append.aspx .
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> Thank you for taking a look.
>
> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
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