Diane

> > My personal context is that I have followed many discussions on this  
> > list and elsewhere regarding standards/semantic markup/seperation of  
> > style and content etc. I fully concur that this would seem to be the  
> > way forward, but I simply do not see how a table can be easily  
> > replaced for presentational purposes for a design like this. I would  
> > dearly like to do so, but with time constraints being what they are I  
> > fear I must resort to the dreaded table.
> 
> I totally understand. You may wish to consider a compromise. Use tables  
> for layout, but use css for things like padding and borders rather than  
> nested tables or spacer images.

Excellent idea! That's exactly what I did, and I'm reasonably pleased with the result. I also learned a great deal in the process.

> A good resource for designing for accessibility that isn't too  
> hard-core about using tables is http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ .  

Fantastic link - I'll second the recommendation for anyone else who's interested.

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Regards

Chris Marsh