Your tables tutorial comments

Hi Howard,

thanks for your feedback on the tables tutorial. You wrote:

> priority: editor's discretion
> location: Tables with one header > Table with ambiguous data
> current wording: The column with the city names threw me because they 
> didn't sound like cities. I might have mentioned this months ago.
> suggested wording: the first names can be confused with city names. 
> Can the city names sound more like cities?

The point of the examples is that the cities don’t sound like cities, 
which makes the use of proper headings and scope even more important. 
For what its worth, all those cities actually exist.

Henry, IL or Henry, VA
Min is somewhere in China (and hard to find on a map ;-)
Brynn is in England, UK

I hope that clarifies that up a bit.

> priority: editor's discretion
> location: Tables with irregular headers > Example 1: Table with two 
> tier headers > second paragraph
> current wording: "To associate the first-level headers properly with 
> the cells both columns, the column structure needs to be defined at 
> the beginning of the table."
> suggested wording: I'm not sure here, because I'm not 100% sure what 
> the sentence is trying to say: "To associate the first-level headers 
> properly with the cells [and with?] both columns, the column structure 
> needs to be defined at the beginning of the table."
> Note: this example was the only one where I couldn't follow the code, 
> most likely because I haven't used the "<col>" tag.

The sentence now reads: “To associate the first-level headers properly 
with all cells of both columns, the column structure needs to be defined 
at the beginning of the table.”


I hope that addresses your comments.

Speak to you tomorrow!

Eric

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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at Wold Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:15:18 UTC