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Re: Use of alt text in document tables
From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 22, 2016 7:25AM
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> Is there any particular reason for adding alt text to data tables? This assumes you've identified header rows and other basic formatting. If you have a lot of tables, you may include captions and/or bookmarks to identify each table.
My thoughts are that this would be akin to the summary attribute -- which is not required and only advised when the structure of the table might otherwise be difficult to understand when using a screen reader.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20150226/H73
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