- From: William R Williams <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:18:53 -0800
- To: wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org
It is a fairly complex data table -- that is why I volunteered it and am anxious to know just how accessible (or not) it may be. Go ahead - rip it apart if you like, I am somewhat thick-skinned, so long as there some lessons learned. Plus, I have another 5 or 6 or these to do in the coming months. This was not an easy chore to begin with; especially considering that it was originally composed as an Excel spreadsheet. I made use of a number of attributes such as summary, scope, headers and id; but I could have done more, I suppose, for the grouping of cells if it would actually help. I could have removed some deprecated mark-up as well; for example, the width attributes, but I doubt that would influence its accessibility. The file validates, makes it through Bobby and some other accessibility checkers. And I know it appears a mess when linearized (i.e., in Tablin). What's a person to do? Bill Kassia Krozser <ktwice@pandemic. com> To Sent by: wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> w3c-wai-ig-reques cc t@w3.org Subject Re: looking for an accessible data 02/09/2005 02:44 table: PM I recently wrote an article that mentioned the difficulties inherent in creating accessible tables, especially if you're trying to present complex information. If you look at the code and the information being presented, it makes sense. Sure, the person who did the work could have used the full breadth and depth of possible elements in an accessible table, but, looking at the data, I'm not sure more code would help matters (heck, I'm not even sure all the options are used by screenreaders or browsers). Kassia On 2/9/05 2:20 PM, "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, William R Williams wrote: > >> Well, you tell me . . . >> >> http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/business-plans/sequoia/financials/summary-table.html > > OMG!!! > > that is supposed to be readable?????????/ > > Bob
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