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Re: Question about accessible tables in word and converting to pdf

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From: L Snider
Date: Nov 15, 2023 12:12PM

For PDF, you need to go through every table to see how it is being tagged.
Often with Word conversion, even from a simple well put together table, I
find that the tagging goes off, and headers are tagged as data cells, and
vice versa.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:41 PM Julie Garland < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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