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Re: another way to create header attribute in complext tables?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Dec 9, 2014 10:19AM

The article you reference is almost 10 years old. It's recommendation
to avoid the scope attribute is quite outdated.

Can you assign the scope="col" or scope="row" attributes to the header
cells as documented at
http://webaim.org/techniques/tables/data#headers?

If not, it's unlikely that the table would ever be highly accessible.
I don't think I've ever seen a table that is so complex that it
requires the headers/id approach (i.e., scope is not sufficient) that
is actually understandable to a screen reader user.

Jared