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Re: Turning in/off inaccessible feature

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Sep 15, 2019 8:47AM

I would agree, but we found no good way of doing this with HTML and CSS without a miserable hack of actually having two or three tables and using CSS z index to slide the true data under the table headers. When the button to turn on accessibility is checked, the entire thing is replaced with a single table that follows accessibility best practices.
If CSS / HTML tables had a way to mark certain columns as floating when scrolling, or if clients would allow only tables that fit on screen, then this mess could be avoided.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Sep 13, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Lucy GRECO < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Having the ability to turn off the column might be useful for more people
> than just screen reader users however it really goes against my instinct to
> come up with an alternative format just for screen reader users
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 2:36 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing the pinning of the column effectively takes that column out of
>> the table so that you can scroll the rest of it. I tried playing with a
>> simple example to visually hide the table column but leave it in the table
>> but my 5 min attempts didn't work. But I think the idea is worth
>> pursuing. I also tried the headers attribute on the <td> but didn't have
>> much luck with that either. But as mentioned, it was a quick test and only
>> tried NVDA on firefox.
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > >