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Mention the scope, headers, axis and abbr attributes of tables in tagging best practices #212

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bertfrees opened this issue Jun 28, 2024 · 0 comments
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bertfrees commented Jun 28, 2024

The examples that the best practices document currently contains don't need these attributes, but the attributes are essential for the accessibility of more complex tables, so it is important to make people aware of them.

scope andheaders are used to associate the right header information with each table cell.

axis is used to provide additional information about a table header, which could be queried by the reader or could be used to render or browse the table in certain ways.

abbr is used to provide a short version of a table header, which is useful when the user agent wants to render it repeatedly. (See also #23.)

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wfree-aph added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 16, 2024
Added instructions and examples to utilize abbr, headers, and scope. Did not do axis since apparently it is deprecated. Meant to address #212.
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