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This tutorial is a guideline which, as part of Wikipedia's [[WP:MOS|Manual of Style]], is intended to assist those creating data tables (or more often [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists|lists]]) in ensuring the content is [[Web accessibility|accessible to all]]. For more info on how to create and edit tables, see [[Help:Table]].
Guidelines on this page are ordered primarily by priority, then difficulty. The priority levels are determined by the Accessibility Success Criteria rankings A, AA, and AAA (in descending order of importance as accessibility considerations) of the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) [[WCAG 2.0|Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0]].<ref group="WCAG" name="WCAG2.0">{{cite web |title=Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 |date=5 May 1999 |work=W3.org |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)|___location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |author=Web Accessibility Initiative |editor1-first=Wendy|editor1-last=Chisholm |editor2-first=John|editor2-last=Slatin |editor3-first=Jason |editor3-last=White |url= http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ |accessdate=11 December 2008}} Confusingly, the WCAG 2.0's rankings A, AA (or Double-A), and AAA (Triple-A) are used for two different but interrelated concepts, the second of which may be counter-intuitive:<ol type="A"><li>The one used in this Wikipedia guideline – the relative importance of a particular "Success Criterion" at achieving accessibility, in which A is the most essential or impactful, and AAA represents less urgent accessibility allowances a site should make, with AA being of medium urgency. Each criterion is explained at a "How to Meet" link in the section in WCAG 2.0 for each of its accessibility recommendations, and collected at [http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/ "How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference"]</li><li>The compliance level of a website, with "A" representing the minimum level of conformance to the accessibility recommendations, and "AAA" being the most accessible, meeting all Level A, AA, and AAA Success Criteria. Thus, "Level AAA Compliance" means the {{em|opposite}} of "only compliant with Level AAA Success Criteria". Wikipedia naturally strives for Level AAA Compliance, prioritizing on proceeding from A to AA to AAA compliance to meet the most essential accessibility requirements the soonest, where practical.</li></ol>
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