Table Accessibility Scope, Axis, ID, Headers

[raeben3]

Desperately need extension of insert 508 tags for Scope, Axis, ID and Headers
into Tables. The market for this is big as the feds, states, and many
countries are now requiring that documents on the web be compliant with Section
508 of ADA. I'm really surprised there is no such extension already, but I'll
be damned if I can find one.

[danilocelic AdobeCommunityExpert]

raeben3 wrote:

> Desperately need extension of insert 508 tags for Scope, Axis, ID and Headers
> into Tables. The market for this is big as the feds, states, and many
> countries are now requiring that documents on the web be compliant with Section
> 508 of ADA. I'm really surprised there is no such extension already, but I'll
> be damned if I can find one.

TH tags can be added/modified quite easily either when adding the table via the Insert bar object and selecting where you'd like the headers to be, or by selecting the TD cells you want to convert and then checking the Header box in the property inspector.

ID values are easily added to a table by selecting it and entering in a value into the field on the upper left, just below the Table label.

Scope and axis attributes are easily added to individual TD/TH tags in code view. Given that, though, suggested values aren't available for scope, but you can add them yourself:
Edit -> Tag Libraries, open HTML tags, open td, select scope
Change Attribute type to Enumerated and then enter in a comma separate list of attribute values you'd like to use. According to:
[url]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#adef-scope[/url]
col,colgroup,row,rowgroup

Repeat for TH. Click OK and now in code view, when you're within a TH or TD tag and you hit space, you should get code hints that appear and when you begin to type scope it'll become hightlighted in the hints, hit the enter key to accept the hint and you should be presented with the attribute value hints.

I've really never used axis before, but reading the descirption here:
[url]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#adef-axis[/url]
It seems like x,y,z could be used as values within the tag library for TH and TD. Not sure what else might be usable in that attribute.

Perhaps you can explain a bit more about what you'd like to see in such an extension, as other may have seen something like what you want, or maybe are industrious enough to create one.



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