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From: Jerra Strong
Date: Sep 23, 2021 10:59AM

Lucy,

One reason I can see contributing to this is automated accessibility
checkers tend to only check tables for column headers, and consider a table
with any column headers "good", even if the table isn't structured all that
well. And depending on the table, whether row headers should or should not
be used can be a judgement call based on the content.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 5:12 PM Lucy GRECO < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> yes glen i agree like i said about have of the tables i see have good
> col headings but only one i have worked with a lot has row headings
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 4:48 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Interesting. So if I do my basic math and divide 1.5 million tables by 1
> > million home pages, that's 1.5 tables on the home page on average. I
> don't
> > recall seeing tables on home pages very often. It would be interesting
> to
> > see how many real data tables there are on home pages.
> >
> > Anecdotally, Lucy, I'm finding more and more data tables with column
> > headings but I rarely find any row headings. Row headings are so useful
> > when navigating down a column with a screen reader.
> >
> > Glen
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >