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

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Dec 10, 2014 5:33PM

One other thing is see if there is a code view. A lot of CMS' I have worked
with present a WYSIWYG editor, but have a code view or view source for the
content. This may need to be enabled in some set of options. Once you get
in, you can manually edit the code, and add the stuff Jared said

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Ryan E. Benson

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks Jared. I haven't coded up a complex table in a long time. In the
> CMS I am able to provide the scope to row, column, row group and column
> group.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:
> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:20 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] another way to create header attribute in complext
> tables?
>
> 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 avoid the scope attribute is quite outdated.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
> > > messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > > >