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From: Bryce Fields
Date: Jul 22, 2005 7:57AM

On 7/22/05, S.Marshall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> For example, I just go an accessibility report back about a website with
> some very, very simple tables - like this:
>
> # Question Answer Marks Out of
> 1 2+2=? 4 10 10
> 2 1+3=? 1 0 10
>
> The table has <th scope="col"> along the top, so it's all done properly
> from an accessibility perspective. And yet we've been requested to make
> a non-table version available that specifically includes it as plain
> text repeeating the headings on each line:
>
> Question 1. Question: 2+2=? Answer: 4. Marks: 10. Out of: 10.
>
> Which is exactly what the screen reader should be doing in the first
> place, given that <th> and scope=! But, er, apparently, it isn't

A little more about screen readers and the scope attribute:

http://usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm

It's an interesting study. Apparently support for scope is pretty
bleak among screen readers.

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