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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 13, 2015 4:00PM

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

I would consider placing footnotes in a table a accessibility violation as that information isn't tabular data. I believe the idea of the tfoot element was for column summaries -- not other data that applies to the table as a whole.

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Jonathan

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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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