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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Aug 3, 2018 3:20PM

Ah, the wonderful floating table issues.

We hide the 1column table and then have it in the main table but hidden underneath the 1 column table

I hope that makes sense. Though generally a table that is that big gets very unwieldy for non screen reader users where they still have to scan back to the first column to remember what they are looking at.

In a lot of cases, one can have fewer columns and then a dialog or separate window that can be brought up with all the details.

Take care,

Jonathan Cohn
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> On Aug 3, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi,
> Just when you think you don't need to see a discussion, it comes up as a topic in testing after it has been talked about on list.
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> I'm looking for info about making ARIA grids accessible. Specifically, to a screen reader it looks like we have a one row table followed by the rest of the table in a separate table. I want to understand what the issues are from a developer perspective. In otherwords, if the developer says something like "We are using this grid because it is responsive and we don't want to turn it into a single HTML table because it will break what we want it to do," how do I respond and show them they can have their cake and eat it too?
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> Thanks.
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> Jim
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