- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:00:47 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
My instinct would be to break up the large table into a series of smaller tables, each with its own heading <h2>Chicken Dishes</h2> <table> .... </table> That way you have a series of simple tables which require less tweaking for accessibiliy purposes. Making the food types headers, also allows screen reader users to navigate from heading to heading. When you read a menu in a restaurant, you would probably do scan for the appropriate, then look at items in detail after finding the section you want. I believe the same reasoning might apply to assets as well. My two cents Elizabeth >Hi, folks > >If anyone has a moment, I'd be grateful for some thoughts on the markup of >three data tables. > >What we have is three menus on different html pages, with links between them >at the top. The content is identical, but we've used different html markup >for each. > >Eventually the lessons we learned will be applied to financial data tables >where they will state a category such as assets, then the individual assets >so there will be two levels of heading. In this case we've said Chicken or >Lamb and given three dishes under each. We hope our markup will leave no >doubt which dish is in which major heading category and help people keep >track of which row you are in. This will become particularly important when >we apply the lessons to columns of very boring figure. > >The url for the first menu is > >http://www.accease.com/testcorner/Mockmenu.html > > >Many thanks > > >Judy Knighton > > > >AccEase Ltd >Making online information accessible >PO Box 40 670, Upper Hutt >Ph +64 4 528 0888 >Fax +64 4 528 0889 >Mob 021 375 321 >informed@accease.com >www.accease.com -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building II 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
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