Re: Headers for tables used for layout

From: William R Williams/R5/USDAFS <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:50:47 -0800 To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Message-ID: <OF9FFC00CD.7571B91E-ON88256B09.005C4448@r5.fs.fed.us> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:13:58 GMT

It seems to me the recommended technique is to include the summary
attribute for the table tag, as demonstrated on the opening page of the W3C
site:

<table
summary="Layout table: The first cell contains a navigation bar of W3C
technologies, the second contains news, and the third another navigation
bar of W3C pages.">

Bill

                    Viral.Patel@exi                                                          
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Hi Everybody

I use InFocus 4.1 for checking pages for accessibility, it shows violation
for a table, but I have used the table only for layout, so I don't want to
specify headers for it.
Is there any way, I can put additional tags in the <table so that screen
reader considers it has a layout table, not data table?

Thanks
Viral Patel