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From: Levon Spradlin
Date: Jan 12, 2017 2:25PM

I have a question about best practices for tables in HTML content. In PDFs,
we can tag them with descriptive text. When tables in web content become
too complex for screen reader users to navigate easily, what is the best
solution for providing an alternative description? I was thinking that
either before or after the table in page text, but I'm curious what others
have done.

cheers,
Levon