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Re: another way to create header attribute in complexttables?

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From: Angela French
Date: Dec 11, 2014 10:06AM


We don't expect our content contributors to know html though.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] another way to create header attribute in complext tables?

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.
>
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> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:20 AM
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> 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 to avoid the scope attribute is quite outdated.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
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