Re: Layout or data table?

Louise:

I agree with Alan Bristow that there are multiple ways to present the information including as a data table. If it were me, I would add a header row at the top for Title, Name and make both <th scope="col"> cells.

A <caption> should also be present, but I did have a screen reader user comment that they wanted one of the <h> tags  for each table in addition to captions. If it's possible to embed an <h2> inside a <caption>, that would probably work. You could probably use CSS for when <h2> is inside a caption.

Hope this helps.
Elizabeth



On Apr 7, 2021, at 9:54 AM, Louise Lister <Louise.Lister@iop.org<mailto:Louise.Lister@iop.org>> wrote:



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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