From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Using a table summary - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Using a table summary
- [Instructor] Let's talk about how to accessibly treat tables for a second. Tables should always have a header row. Assistive technology will read the header with the table cell so it's not reading a meaningless jumble of data and figures. Imagine a table row being atonally read aloud. Mark headers with a T head, or TH, elements. So let's talk about what that means. This is the header row, and when it's coded as a header, it will come out in InDesign as a header. So this Convert Rows feature, I'm gonna convert this row to a header instead of body, and then it will come out as a header. So let's look at what that means. When assistive technology comes on to this table, it's going to do this. It's going to read access type and time, and then it's gonna read this section here, fistula or graft, and then it's gonna go read measures, and it's gonna read this copy. And then how it works, and then this copy. So it goes up to the header row, and then reads the data, and then up to the header…
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