Kenny is correct. By the time we had W3C specs on tables, lynx development was pretty moribund. Considering this, I find it quite amazing how effective lynx still is in so many circumstances, but proper access to semantec tabular data isn't something it provides. Now, I do think it does a superior job of rendering the use of tables for layout--but that's not what you asked about. Kenny Hitt writes: > Hi. As far as I know, lynx doesn't handle tables. It presents the page > in sequencial order. For example, a table with 3 columns would have > column1, column2, and column 3. You will see the headers for the table > before the columns start, but there isn't any way I know of to > determine what data is in what column without guessing. > > Hopefully, someone will jump in and correct me. > Kenny > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:00:08PM -0500, Bailey, Bruce wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how the Lynx web browser handles multi-level tables? > > > > In particular, does Lynx just ignore HEADERS, ID, SCOPE, AXIS, and the like? > > > > The W3C WAI WCAG1 specifies as Priority 1: > > 5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells. > > > > The 508 1194.22(h) standard uses almost the exact same language. > > > > In the Windows world, the screen readers make good use of HEADERS and ID for correctly coded multi-level tables. Support for SCOPE and AXIS (used in conjunction with THEAD, TFOOT, COL and COLGROUP) is much weaker. > > > > Lynx does a good job with most tables IMHO, even large data sheets, so long as they have only one row of TH for the column headings. I will confess that I do not use Lynx as my primary browser, so I am unfamiliar with its behavior with more complex, but properly coded, tables. I also don't have any sample tables to cite. > > > > Thank you. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list