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Re: data table without visual headers

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 25, 2017 2:57PM

The only potential accessibility fail (as opposed o usability fai) is
if the course names are displayed in a larger/different font, in which
case they should be markd up as row headers.


On 9/25/17, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Joseph Sherman wrote:
>
>> If everyone is equally deprived, is that ok?
>
> Well, it's not OK if you want it to be reasonable usable by anyone.
>
> But I don't believe this would be a WCAG 2.0 failure. The relevant
> success criterion is 1.3.1 which deals with visual presentation and
> relationships being provided programmatically. Because there are not
> visual headers for this table, there are no visual relationships that
> would need to be provided via page semantics.
>
> Jared
> > > > >


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