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From: Julie Garland
Date: Nov 15, 2023 9:41AM

Hi, I have a question about an accessible table in Word.

I recently took WebAim's accessible documents class and set up my table with correctly identified headers. I also set the table properties so that the header repeats on each page and the rows cannot break across pages.

However, when I convert to PDF and run the accessibility check, I receive an error: "Regularity - Failed" for both tables: "To be accessible, tables must contain the same number of columns in each row, and rows in each column."

Can anyone suggest why this might be happening? Thank you!

Julie

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