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

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From: L Snider
Date: Mar 4, 2021 5:42AM

They made significant changes to Word since 2013, and you may be seeing
that in the code. In my experience on Mac and PC, PDFs don't always create
the tables correctly, many times I get a billion header rows, when Word can
only mark one (there is no rhyme or reason as it happens every so often
when I create a new table too)...

The repeat header rows is good for everyone, as it helps keep the header
row (and/or column row) on each page, if the table continues. The first
header row option is checked by default in the newer Word versions, as is
first column row (I always have to take the column row off if no column).
This should give it a TH and not a TD...but if you convert to PDF, always
check every table because there is not consistency, and I have seen that on
Mac more than PC (I use both).

Cheers

Lisa



On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:50 PM Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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 In recent versions the "Header Row Repeat" has been replaced by the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
>
>