Re: double underscore with meaning

On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:27:16 +0200, Siegman, Tzviya <tsiegman@wiley.com>  
wrote:

Making the double-underscore itself accessible seems hard, although it  
should at least be really clearly different from others. In the image you  
show, it's about three times the height including the gap between lines,  
but I find that isn't immediately visually obvious compared to the  
headings in particular.

Essentially the double-underscore is noting the cell as a critical one.  
Giving that cell an appropriate label, making sure it has the right  
headers associated - and perhaps by providing a direct link to it along  
the lines of "<a href='#thatCell'>bottom line</a>: We're broke" or  
something similar would be worth considering.

Some naive markup to give a sense of what the table looks like:

<table>
   <caption>SAMCO COMPANY, INC.<br>Balance Sheet<br>For the Month  
Ended...</caption>
  <thead>
   <th colspan="2">Assets</th>
   <th colspan="2">Liabilities and equity</th>
  </thead>

... some rows
<tr>
  <th id="totalAssets">Total assets</th><td  
headers="totalAssets">4/6</td><td>plain data</td><td>333</td>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><th scope="row">Total Liabilities</th><td>3d  
3/4</td></tr>
</table>

It might be better marked up as two tables, presented side by side, since  
effectively that is what it really is.

cheers

Chaals

>
> Hi WAI-IG,
>
>
> I often work on accounting content. It is common in the accounting world  
> to use a double underscore to indicate that the number is the sum, the  
> final number in >the column. Below is an image including a sample  
> (sorry, I don’t have the HTML table to share). This can be accomplished  
> with a CSS, using something like border->bottom: 10px double;
>
> My question to this group is how can I make the double underscore  
> accessible?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Tzviya Siegman
>
> Information Standards Lead
>
> Wiley
>
> 201-748-6884
>
> tsiegman@wiley.com
>



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