- From: Steven Dale <sdale@stevendale.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:21:24 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Why not just style the <TH> the same as your <H>? What am I missing that you are trying to say? -Steve Sailesh Panchang said: > Hello all, > HTML accessibility guidelines or specs say nothing about use of heading > taggs (h1, h2, etc) for marking up group / section headings within data > tables. Consider, for instance first column groups grades 1 to 12 under > elementary/mid and high schools and other columns have values against > the grades. Running down the first column with screen reading software > will speak out the heading markup and inform the user that the items > below belong to that group. They could be marked uup with h2 or h3 and > styled to maintain visual l&f. A simple technique but I do not see it > being mentioned for making certain data tables accessible. Comments? > Sailesh Panchang > Senior Accessibility Engineer > Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, > 4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 > Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 > E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com > Fax: 703-225-0387 > * Look up <http://www.deque.com> *
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