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From: Juan Ulloa
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 2:40PM
Subject: Accessible Calendar: tables-free or data-table
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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.

Juan C. Ulloa

From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 4:00PM
Subject: Re: Accessible Calendar: tables-free or data-table
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Juan Ulloa wrote:
> Through the use of headings, the user could
> navigate through the calendar

Most screen readers have fairly good support for navigating data tables
as well, though...

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Patrick H. Lauke
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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 5:20PM
Subject: Re: Accessible Calendar: tables-free or data-table
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On 25/10/05, Juan Ulloa < = EMAIL ADDRESS 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