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Re: Accessibility in Financial Tables in HTML

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Oct 13, 2015 1:22PM

> On 13.10.2015, at 20:54, Julie Lewis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I disagree. From a usability perspective it¹s pretty clear that less is
> more. The question is whether a non-sighted user will have enough context
> to figure out what the numbers mean if they are just traversing the table.

… are we discussing non-sightedness specifically?

What if a user with a different type of disability would find it easier if there is less information?

In general: each and every user, whether disabled in one way or another or not, will have to build a mental model to deal with this table (or any other such non-trivial document substructure). Just bumping into a random table cell out of nowhere will probably provide nobody at all with meaningful information. Each and every user will have to establish some context by reading the "stuff around the table".


Olaf