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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Mar 13, 2015 12:05PM

Word has only primitive accessibility hooks for data tables, so I'm not sure there would be a significant difference. I would think they belong outside the table, but immediately after, since the column headers wouldn't apply to them and all the accessible Word instructions say to not merge cells. (But I wouldn't bet any actual money on that being the "right" answer.)

Sarah E. Bourne
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Subject: [WebAIM] Q: Table footnotes in Word

Question for Word users:

We have a client requesting that tables in Word have their footnotes (and other notes and sources) after the table, outside the <table> tag.

We're under the impression that they should be within the <Table> tag, in a row at the bottom. Essentially in a footer row.

WCAG is not clear on this for Word tables.



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