[thelist] Question about W3C Accessibility Priority 2 guideline

Stephen Rider evolt_org at striderweb.com
Mon Jul 26 12:42:56 CDT 2004


>> I am readying over the W3C's checklist for accessibility and came 
>> across the
>> following statement:
>>
>> "5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structual markup 
>> for the
>> purpose of visual formatting"
>
> It actually means that you shouldn't use markup such as th, summary, 
> caption, thead, tbody etc

To clarify that statement a bit...

You shouldn't use markup such as th, summary, caption, thead, tbody, 
etc., _if_ the table in question is purely there for layout purposes.

Tables containing tabular data are of course perfectly appropriate 
places to use those tags.

Steve



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