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Re: Guidance for HTML data table special cases?

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jul 25, 2017 12:45PM

hello: i like what you said and and understand your frustration. however i
do disagree with the leaving the sells blank the beginner screen
reader user does not know how to navagate tables and needs some form of
place marker to show a sell is empty

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I won't share the specific vitriolic feedback, but it boils down to
> wanting to treat accessibility as a compliance issue (where's the WCAG
> success criteria to back this up?) vs accessibility as a practice (it
> violates WCAG principles Perceivable and Understandable, and it can be
> disorienting to even visual users).
>
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