- From: Terrence Wood <tdw@funkive.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:58:23 +1200 (NZST)
- To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Greetings, I am developing processes for converting complex financial documents to valid, accessible HTML. Traditionally, I have marked up tables where the first column is marked up as a TH and set scope="row" for accessibility (and semantic meaning). However, some of the documents I am working with are 5 column Statements of Financial Position where the first two columns are estimated numbers, followed by a column containing the row labels, and finishing with two columns of actual numbers. A quick perusal of the HTML 4.0 recommendation does not preclude me from marking up the cells in column 3 as TH with scope="row". I am wondering if anyone else has marked up documents in this manner, or can elighten me if this is an abuse of HTML 4.0, or is aware that this presents a significant barrier to assistive technologies? kind regards Terrence Wood.
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