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From: Maren Child
Date: Sep 15, 2004 10:01PM


Here's an example of the kind of table I'm talking about - table 1 on
http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/what/publications/corporate/annual_report/200
3/html/outcome1.htm

It seems to need something in the first header cell for the rest of the
first column cells to refer to. Visually, you can probably infer it, but I
imagine a screen reader would have trouble with it.


I would use the method from www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/hiddentext to
hide the content of the header cell:
..hidden
{
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:-500px;
width:1px;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}
This text is hidden.


Maren