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From: Graham Armfield
Date: Jul 23, 2015 8:48AM

_mallory is right in my view, that is a significant reason why devs would
want to do this. I've seen it in websites for mobiles, and in hybrid apps
too. Left and right scrolling of tables may deliver an accessible
experience, but many people don't like the way it looks.


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Graham Armfield



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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:37 PM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> While I'm unsure of which circumstances Jonathan's talking about, I
> have seen developers avoid using tables for tables purely because of
> mobile-suckage (that the best one can do with large tables is scroll
> them).
>
> _mallory
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:46:33PM +0000, Moore,Michael (HHSC) wrote:
> > Wouldn't you consider it to be a fundamental semantic flaw to implement
> a grid with divs rather than a table or am I missing something. I see this
> implementation all of the time. I understand using generic markup (spans
> and divs) to create constructs that do not map well to existing html
> elements but for a grid a table provides the proper semantic structure. -
> Unless you are referring to a layout grid used to organize sections of a
> page. Perhaps the problem is that developers are using the frameworks
> layout grid construct where they should be dropping a table into a div
> within the grid.
> >
> > Mike Moore
> > Accessibility Coordinator
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> >
> >