Re: Accessible data table

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, B.K. DeLong wrote:

>
> Hi all -
>
> I'd like an opinion on the accessibility of our data tables. I think I've
> covered everything including:
>
> 1. Table caption elements.
> 2. Proper table structure including th, thead and tbody elements.
> 3. identifying relationships between columns and cells using scope, id and
> headers attributes
> 4. A meaningful table summary attribute.

just took a look in Lynx, running on a Linux machine.

all the columns and cells lined up nicely, in fact nicer than any I have
ever seen, but the captions at the top were not lined up with the columns.

Bob

>
> Is there anything I'm missing?
>
> http://mit.edu/ocwhq/author/cmstable/100/6columns.html
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> B.K. DeLong
> Web Production Specialist
>
> MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Building 9, Room 215
> 105 Massachusetts Ave.
> Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
>
> email: bkdelong@mit.edu
> http://bkdelong.mit.edu
>
>

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