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From: Scott Ebner
Date: Feb 7, 2003 3:11PM





Laurie,

I recently wrote some table code that "looks" similar to the image,
although I'm not sure how accessible it is:
http://www.tivoli.com/migration/locatepage.html

I used clear images to frame the text cells, and didn't use a border at
all. The table color is actually the border, and within each text cell is
another table with cellpadding="3". The text cell is also a different
color.

Here's an example of the code:

<TABLE cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="610"
bgcolor="#666666">
<TR>
<TD colspan="5" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG
src="/global/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"
/></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top">
<TD bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/global/images/spacer.gif"
width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0" /></TD>
<TD bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><TABLE cellpadding="3"
cellspacing="0" border="0"><TR><TD class="tabletext"><B>Home</B><BR
/>www.tivoli.com</TD></TR></TABLE></TD>
<TD bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/global/images/spacer.gif"
width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0" /></TD>
<TD bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><TABLE cellpadding="3"
cellspacing="0" border="0"><TR><TD class="tabletext"><B>Tivoli
software</B><BR /><A
href="http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/">www.ibm.com/tivoli</A></TD></TR></TABLE></TD>
<TD bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/global/images/spacer.gif"
width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan="5" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG
src="/global/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"
/></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

You might be able to adapt some of this code and make it more accessible.

HTH,
Scott Ebner
Web Developer
IBM iMedia Solutions Agency
<EMAIL REMOVED>
512-286-3275
T/L 966-3275




Laurie Davis-Covin
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Subject: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7
02/07/2003 01:13
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In a Web page accessibility class I just gave, there was someone in the
class who had placed an image of a data table on her Web page. She did it
that way because - surprise - she wanted it to look great. I told her that

I could do it in XHTML and make it accessible, and it would still look
really good.

I'm not finding the right combination to apply the border so it will render

in Netscape 4.7. If it "takes a village" to do it, I need to prove to her
it can be done.

It's here if anyone wants to take this
on. http://museum.nist.gov/fortest/table_border.htm

This is the original table (gif
file) http://museum.nist.gov/fortest/table_image.htm

Seems the more I work on it, the less it looks "really good".



Laurie Davis-Covin, Web Specialist/Writer
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive
Admin. Building, Room E 220
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Ph: 301-975-8027





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