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RE: Table Column Headings

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 3, 2003 8:24AM

Jukka,

Thanks for the suggestions.


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>On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Tim Harshbarger wrote:
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>> 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?
>
>Not really. Why would you do that? The summary attribute in
><table> is supposed to be used for purposes like that, i.e. to
>provide information (on the structure of the table) that is
>optionally available but not normally visible. The support is
>not very good. The only safe way to make such information
>surely available is to make it part of the document content
>proper, normally before the table.
>
>The point is that a screen reader reads what there is on the screen.
>
>But if you really want, you might experiment with the idea of
>making the font size of the table row very small and the text
>color the same as the background color. As far as I can guess,
>screen readers would still read it normally, whereas people
>using normal graphic browsers would not see it. But this is
>somewhat risky. What if a person with reduced eyesight surfs
>around with a graphic browser set to override settings on
>pages, using a user-specified font size and user-specified colors?
>
>--
>Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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