Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Manual of Style draft

After a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (accessibility), it became clear that great changes needs to be prepared on a dedicated subpage.

Each section is a draft for a change. They have several possible status. A draft is ready to be implemented in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (accessibility) once it's marked as "reviewed by an accessibility expert and ready for implementation".

Criterions on this page are prioritized according to impact (W3C's accessibility level of priorities: A, AA or AAA) and degree of feasibility (with MediaWiki's syntax and the burden it places on users).

Data tables

Status: Complete. Needs to be reviewed by an accessibility expert.

Priority: high (A accessibility level)
Difficulty: easy (blend in nicely with editorial habits)

{| 
|+ [caption text]
|-
! scope="col" | [column header 1]
! scope="col" | [column header 2]
! scope="col" | [column header 3]
|-
! scope="row" | [row header 1]
| [normal cell 1,2] || [normal cell 1,3]
|-
! scope="row" | [row header 2]
| [normal cell 2,2] || [normal cell 2,3]
...
|}

Caption ( |+ ): A caption is a table's title, describing its nature.^{[WCAG-TECH 1]}
Row & column headers ( ! ): Like the caption, these help present the information in a logical structure to visitors. They can have the headers read first, and then navigate the related data.^[1]
Scope of headers ( ! scope="col" | and ! scope="row" | ): This clearly identifies headers as either row headers or column headers. Headers can now be associated to corresponding cells.^{[WCAG-TECH 2]}

Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Manual of Style draft/Data tables tutorial provides details and the other requirements:

Correct table captions
Correct headers structure
Images and color
Avoiding nested tables
Providing abbreviations for long headers