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From: Brian Lovely
Date: May 16, 2019 6:03AM

I've been fighting against this pattern which is a hybrid of table and
accordion. Essentially, each table row displays a minimum amount of data
(all correct, columns, rows, and headers) but there is a button for "more".
When the button is activated a sort of accordion drawer opens that runs the
width of the table, completely breaking the column, row, header pattern.

This component would take some work to rebuild. My thought is to either
provide the cells with expandable areas and assign the "more" content to
specific cells which then open when the button is activated, or to display
the expanded version of the row data in a modal when the button is
activated. One drawback to the modal idea is that only one row can be
expanded at a time this way.

Before I really push for this change, I want to know if this hybrid
table/accordion is really as bad as I think it is. Should I keep pushing
for it to be changed or should I just pick another battle?



*Brian Lovely*
Capital One Digital Accessibility
804.389.1064

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