Table Tagging
Answer
Tabular data should be tagged or coded as tables to be as readable and understandable as possible. Correctly built and tagged tables make complex data much easier to understand for screen reader users.
Examples:
Do
- use system or program specific ways to insert or declare tables.
- in LibGuides and H5P, insert a table using the WYSIWYG editor.
- in Word and PowerPoint, this means inserting a table using the Insert Ribbon.
- in PDFs, this means assessing tables to ensure they are tagged as tables.
- in HTML, this means using the appropriate <table> <th> <tr> and <td> tags.
Don't
- arrange data in a table-like structure using empty spaces or lines.