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RE: Tables and accessibility, your opinions....

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From: L
Date: Oct 3, 2005 4:00AM

Christian Heileman wrote:

"Well, tabular data is only accessible when marked up as a data table with the proper attributes connecting the data cells with the headers.
IMHO there is no discussion whether a calendar should be a table or not."

I'd add to this by saying that unless a calendar, or other tabular data is marked up as a data table, then a screen reader user will be hard pushed to correctly interpret the meaning of such information.

Tink.