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Re: Table Column Headings

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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Nov 3, 2003 7:45AM

on 11/3/03 9:15 AM, Tim Harshbarger at <EMAIL REMOVED>
profoundly spewed forth their very articulate thoughts:

> Is there a way to hide a table's header row so that it is not visible in the
> browser, but so that screen readers will still speak the header row
> information?

Someone may have a creative idea, but I cannot think of a way... The reason
being that if you set the contents to be hidden to sighted viewers, many
screen readers will not read them either... (I believe JAWS basically reads
what IE6 PC sees).

If it were layers, you could set up some fancy tricks, but being a table,
the only thing I can think of is to set the text the same color as the
background... And this should ONLY be done if you don't have any need of
search engine indexing since it's one of the old SE Spammer tricks and can
get you black listed from the index completely.

Stephanie Sullivan

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