Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial: Difference between revisions

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This also removes some of the the superfluous column widths (if you ''must'' have them, use ems because you don't know the metrics of the client's browser font) as well as the deprecated <nowiki><br /></nowiki> tags that are being used to visually mimic a list. Also, style="text-align:center" is much better than setting a td to the deprecated align=center. As usual, this isn't compulsory, but it is much better practice. The extra whitespace indenting in the unbulleted lists is only there to help make the structure clearer. I don't expect every editor to cope with this sort of markup, but there's no reason why experienced editors can't improve this as they clean-up tables. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 14:47, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

== Avoiding more than two levels of headers ==

The table given as the good example could be improved by using row headers (in this case the distances). Remember, screen readers are capable of non-linear navigation, so the ability to announce the [column header][row header] before any cell value can be more effective when row headers are present, particularly on larger tables. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 15:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)