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Re: Can someone explain the following Accessibility checker results in Office 365?

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From: Karen McCall
Date: Mar 3, 2021 1:50PM

Here is the Microsoft page that explains the rules and as important, how they change from iteration of Office to iteration:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/rules-for-the-accessibility-checker-651e08f2-0fc3-4e10-aaca-74b4a67101c1?ui=en-us&rs=en-gb&ad=gb#:~:text=Warnings%20%20%20%20Rule%20%20%20,%20PowerPoint,%20OneNote%20%201%20more%20rows

In recent versions the "Header Row Repeat" has been replaced by the ability to use the Table Design Ribbon to identify Header Row and First column which will convert column and row titles to TH tags in a PDF document.

I still tell people to repeat the header row because it optimizes accessibility as tables span pages.

Cheers, Karen