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From: Angela French
Date: Wed, Jul 19 2017 3:11PM
Subject: first row in table not table headers
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Hello,
Looking for opinions. How egregious is it to have the first row of a data table be a row containing the paging links and the second row be the table headers?
This rubs me the wrong way, but the .net control we are using does this and it would be significant amount of work to re-engineer it.
Although simplified, this is what I'm describing:
<table>
<tr><td> Page: 1, 2, 3, .... </td></tr>
<tr>
<th>Column heading 1</th>
<th>Column heading 2</th>
Etc.
</tr>
<tr><td>cell 1</td><td>cell 2</td>etc.</tr>
</table>
Thanks,
Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Wed, Jul 26 2017 12:40PM
Subject: Re: first row in table not table headers
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That's a unique way of doing things. I agree with your discomfort.
If the <th> isn't at the top of the table, here's what I'd try to get, though you may be unable to affect this change either. The <td> cells that use those <th> headings could use the header/id attribute pairing to establish that connection. The pagination row would not. I'd then test the hell out of it see how things really behave, but first I'd make sure it's even possible in the .net control, which it sounds like you don't control.
From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Wed, Jul 26 2017 1:03PM
Subject: Re: first row in table not table headers
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I'd generally consider a data table that has non-data table stuff in it as a violation of SC 1.3.1.
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Wed, Jul 26 2017 1:55PM
Subject: Re: first row in table not table headers
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Is the table coded using valid HTML
You can run the table markup through https://validator.w3.org/nu/
If not, it is definitely a 1.3.1 violation in my opinion.
If it is valid, and if the <td> cells in the first row are not
actually regular table cells (i.e., the header cells in row two do not
apply to them), I think it is a pass.
If they are, you can headers/id or aria-describedby to tie them to the
header cells.
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> I'd generally consider a data table that has non-data table stuff in it as a
> violation of SC 1.3.1.
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> Jonathan
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> Jonathan Avila
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