WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

RE: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7

for

From: Laurie Davis-Covin
Date: Feb 10, 2003 12:19PM

Jules -- Thanks for your help... I need to check this out: when there is a
spanned header cell, scope does not cut it any longer.

At 02:38 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>The borders are extra thick because in the style sheet, you have a border on
>the row (tr) as well as each cell (th and td) which means you are doubling
>the border. Remove tr from the border style rule.
>
>WRT the left column. You have used th for each cell down the left which may
>not be necessary but I will discuss that later. If it is appropriate to use
>th, then take the bold off. You have the (left) header cells tagged with the
>class "italic" - if you have no other use for that class, you could modify
>it to include "font-weight: normal" to turn off the bold appearance of the
>th tag. Also, th by default is centered so you could also modify the italic
>class for the th cells with "text-align: left".
>
>In the gif, the data cells are left aligned but I see you have put
>"text-align: center" in those data cells (td).
>
>WRT the top two rows. It is my understanding that when there is a spanned
>header cell, scope does not cut it any longer. Without the top row, scope is
>fine and will meet the needs for accessibility but with the top row, scope
>is not enough (correct me if I am wrong someone, accessibility of tables is
>not a simple topic). In my understanding, when you have a layout like yours,
>you have two options: take the top row out of the table and set it as a
>caption or keep it in the table and use the id and headers attributes. The
>first option is simple and allows you to use the scope you currently are
>using. The second option requires that you id the four cells in the top two
>rows and "tag" each data cell below (including the left header cells which
>no longer need to be header cells but simply regular data cells) with the
>header attribute.
>
>I hope this helps or better than that, I hope I am correct.
>
>Jules
>
>
>----
>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
>visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/

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





----
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/