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Re: Table Screen Reader rendering.

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From: ben morrison
Date: Jun 17, 2005 6:35AM

> I adapted the accessible table from the W3 to a Canadian context. And had
> assumed that it would 'render' properly with a screen reader (not a particular
> one), but the markup seems to make no difference.

You seem to be mixing th's and td's, you should use <thead> for the
header section, <tbody> for the content and <tfoooter> which i
sometimes leave blank.

Some sections only have 4 <td>s others have 5, you need to use
colspan="2" appropriately to do this.

You seem to have the headers all mixed up.

Ive never come across axis before?

there is a great table tool on accessify.com whcih can be really
usefull, I use it when needed as its very rare that i use tables.

http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessible-table-builder_step1.asp

HTH
Ben