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Re: Accessible Calendar: tables-free or data-table

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Oct 25, 2005 5:20PM

On 25/10/05, Juan Ulloa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Howdy,
> I'm curious about what people through about making table-free events
> calendars. I see the benefit of having the calendar be a data table,
> this way I can mark up all the IDs and Headers and users can see the
> relationships of any event to whatever day of the week or month. But I
> also see the benefit of making the calendar linear and controlling the
> layout through CSS. Through the use of headings, the user could
> navigate through the calendar and the plus is that the calendar could be
> styled easily through CSS.

I think the general consensus is that a calendar *is* a table, and
should be marked up as such. Tables are CSS-stylable too...

Tim