Posted by Mary-Anne Nayler on 05/10/05 02:15

I was under the belief that tables are very bad for accessibility. I
once attended a conference on accessibility and standards and witnessed
a blind person attempting to read a website that had it's information
laid out in a table with a screen reader. It was awful and shamed me
into never using tables in my web design again (where possible of course).

Check out Joe Clarkes website: http://joeclark.org. Joe is an expert in
web accessibility issues.

Mikey wrote, On 10/05/05 12:40 AM:

>Hiya!
>
>I have just come back from the client visit and one of the issues that arose
>was over the use of accessible markup, more specifically the use of tables
>versus the use of layers.
>
>Now, my long held belief was that div/layers were added to the spec so that
>designers could separate presentation markup from content - that is, use
>positioned layers for laying out content, use tables for tables of data as
>they were originally intended. However, my client seemed adamant that it
>was the other way around and that the use of tables was preferred owing to
>browser compatibility issues.
>
>Now, I have just had a look around w3 and have found some inferences that
>support my view but nothing that states clearly in either direction. Does
>anyone on this list have a definitive answer for this one?
>
>TIA,
>
>Mikey
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