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Re: Tables - my thoughts

From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:36:37 +1000 (EST)
To: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980723103443.29789F-100000@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>

Labelling tables for their purpose:
Tables for presentation of tabular information need no label.

Tables for columnar layout need to be excised from the web, until such 
time as screen readers which cannot understand them are no longer used.

just my 2c

Charles

Received on Wednesday, 22 July 1998 20:58:27 GMT

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