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RE: Table Column Headings

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 3, 2003 8:18AM

Jules,

They do have headers for the table. Unfortunately, this particular project
team made the table with the headers a separate table. They did this so
they could create a scrollable table while making the headers static.

Thanks!
Tim


>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:42 AM
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>Subject: RE: Table Column Headings
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>
>Recent tests with screen readers have shown that if you hide
>content (using either visibility: hidden or display:none),
>screen readers don't read it. One person on another
>accessibility discussion hid content by making the color of
>the text the same as the color of the background and reported
>that it was read by screen readers.
>
>However, there is another issue - if the header content is
>useful to those who use screen readers, why is it not useful
>to the rest of us? I suggest that you use headers for everyone.
>
>Jules
>
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>Julian Rickards
>Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
>Publications Services Section
>Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
>Phone: (705) 670-5608
>Fax: (705) 670-5690
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Harshbarger [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>>
>> 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?
>
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