RE: Looking for clarity on Layout tables

Hello Martyna,

> I am looking for a concrete direction, a reference in WCAG, W3C, that says
> clearly that layout tables must use role=presentation.
>
"If a table is used for layout purposes, it must be marked with the
attribute role="presentation" for a user agent to properly represent the
table to an assistive technology, and to properly convey the intent of the
author to tools that wish to extract tabular data from the document."
https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/tabular-data.html#the-table-element

Jan


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