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Re: accessible tables: colgroup vs headers and ids

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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 15, 2016 2:35PM

Thanks. This is what I thought, but when a noted accessibility checker throws an error on you, it's easy to second guess oneself. I suppose, programmatically, it must be tough to validate complex tables.

Angela French


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan Avila
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 1:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible tables: colgroup vs headers and ids

> I would appreciate a little accessibility-related feedback on the two
> tables on this page<

Scope is sufficient because the headers all apply to all cells in that column. Ids and headers would be needed when not all headers in column apply to all cells -- e.g. you have different sections/subheaders further down in the table.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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SSB BART Group
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 3:32 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] accessible tables: colgroup vs headers and ids

Hello,
I would appreciate a little accessibility-related feedback on the two tables on this page<http://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/policies-rules/policy-manual/ch6-append-h.aspx>;. We have used the scope attribute, in an attempt to make complex tables accessible, because that is all that the text editor in our CMS provides. However, the accessibility validator in our CMS, which uses http://achecker.ca throws errors for not using headers and ids. Does properly used colgroup suffice, or is it necessary to hand code such tables with headers and ids to make them accessible?

Thanks,



Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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