Re: Accessible HTML - OT

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I was under the belief that tables are very bad for accessibility. I once attended a conference on accessibility and standards and witnessed a blind person attempting to read a website that had it's information laid out in a table with a screen reader. It was awful and shamed me into never using tables in my web design again (where possible of course).

Check out Joe Clarkes website: http://joeclark.org. Joe is an expert in web accessibility issues.

Mikey wrote, On 10/05/05 12:40 AM:

Hiya!

I have just come back from the client visit and one of the issues that arose
was over the use of accessible markup, more specifically the use of tables
versus the use of layers.

Now, my long held belief was that div/layers were added to the spec so that
designers could separate presentation markup from content - that is, use
positioned layers for laying out content, use tables for tables of data as
they were originally intended.  However, my client seemed adamant that it
was the other way around and that the use of tables was preferred owing to
browser compatibility issues.

Now, I have just had a look around w3 and have found some inferences that
support my view but nothing that states clearly in either direction.  Does
anyone on this list have a definitive answer for this one?

TIA,

Mikey
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