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Table Manners: Creating accessible Tables for both layout and data
by Jim Byrne, The Making Connections Unit, January 2002.
In this article you will find:
A discussion about the merits of using Tables or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for page layout.
Techniques for making layout tables accessible.
Techniques for making data tables accessible.
Should we still be using the TABLE tag to layout pages?
I know it is good to create accessible Websites and I know that this means writing standards based HTML, but I have always struggled with the question of whether I should (mis)use the HTML TABLE element to lay out my Web pages? I could steer clear of the corrupting TABLE element and feel virtuous, have accessible pages, but have limited design options. Or I could embrace its corrupting powers (to hell with structure give me presentation) and lay out my pages in response to the vagaries of my imagination. If I am a smart designer, I should make some usability gains for the majority of visitors to my site.
It's been a difficult dilemma but I think I have come to a decision - and yes - at least until CSS for layout becomes less troublesome - the TABLE tag is my friend. Control of layout is important - but whether I use CSS, tables, or avoid both, as yet, there is no completely satisfactory solution. Cascading Style Sheets are an option but current use of CSS merely substitutes 'CSS hacks' for 'table hacks', in an attempt to work around Web browser bugs and incompatibilities. It is indicative of where we are with CSS for layout that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3c), who publish the 'official' Web Accessibility Gudelines, still use tables to layout the design of their Web pages.
The W3c Web Accessibility Guidelines recogn"
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