Layout or data table?

Hello all,

I hope you can assist.

On our website we have some tables that contain information on committee member names and their roles, so for example:

Committee members

Chair
Mr A*
Treasurer
Mrs Y
Ordinary member
Mr C
Ordinary member
Mr G
Ordinary member
Ms P

In this case, the title is a h2 and each role in the left-hand cell carries the <th scope> value.  To all intents and purposes, we have treated it as a data table, but is it a layout table because the information could be presented in linear fashion another way? And if so, should it have a role="presentation" value in it?

I feel this is a bit of a grey area between the two and would appreciate your thoughts. It reads out fine in NVDA so I don't think it's an issue, but wanted to make sure we were accounting for our tables correctly!

With thanks
Louise

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