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From: Dax Castro
Date: Nov 15, 2023 12:39PM

It is likely that you have merged cells in your table and do not have the right Spans set.


Thanks,

Dax Castro, ADS
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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of L Snider
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Question about accessible tables in word and converting to pdf

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> >
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> 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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