- From: <Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:05:51 +1000
- To: Jamie.Mackay@mch.govt.nz
- Cc: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Jamie, My experience has been to include a "0" [zero] in the blank cells of a table such as your immigration table. These can be hidden from (most) sighted users with a span class for the cell [eg .hide { visibility: hidden}], but will be read out by a screen reader thus giving a blind person better orientation within the columns of your table. WRT an empty table head element, why doesn't the top-left cell describe the labels in column 1? If this is not needed visually, then again it could have a span class applied to hide it. Hope this helps, Andrew _________________________________ Dr Andrew Arch Manager, Internet Product Development Vision Australia Foundation Ph 613 9864 9222; Fax 613 9864 9210 Mobile 0438 755 565 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ Member, Education & Outreach Working Group, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/ "Jamie Mackay" <Jamie.Mackay@mc To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spinsol.com>, "wai-ig h.govt.nz> list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent by: cc: w3c-wai-ig-reque Subject: RE: how to use thead and tbody st@w3.org 13/09/01 08:43 I'm glad this came up. I have a couple of other questions: How should I mark up an 'empty' table head element - a table were there is no header - as is sometimes the case with the top left-hand cell? Is it ok to include in empty cells? If anyone has the time to check this page and let me know if it looks ok (I fear I might have followed the W3C exapmle too literally) I would really appreciate it. (BTW I know I am not allowed the border color in the table, I'm still trying to make this work in CSS): http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/gallery/brit-nz/immig-all-table.htm I hope you will forgive me for asking what seem like trivial questions at a time of such crisis and sadness for many of you. Thanks in anticipation Jamie Mackay
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