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Re: Asking for views on using h1-h6 headingmarkupinsidedatatables

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 30, 2017 7:30PM

> But I have found legitimate needs for subheads within tables used for statistical data, such as a government agency's table I reviewed today. These are data tables, not layout tables.

I agree - I have seen situations where we need headings within data tables because there can be large amounts of data in table cells that is indeed tabular data. Ideally the user agents and AT should be smart enough to figure out a heading structure within a cell might be specific to that cell rather than relative to the document as a whole -- but unfortunately this has never been well adopted.

Jonathan

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