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From: Shane Anderson
Date: Sep 27, 2017 5:50AM

Jared and Birkir,

Do you feel that 2.4.6 wouldn't apply here?

In principle I think 2.4.6 covers the issue. However, 2.4.6 only explicitly
mentions headings and labels.

Shane

Regards
Shane Anderson


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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