I will be using sample Complex Tables in Word that I’ve created for the benefit of our screen reader users who can actually navigate the tables rather than deal with images and alt text. We are assuming that you already know that Complex Tables need IDs and data that relates to those IDs. It’s very likely that someone is you – which is why you’re reading this post. If the supervisory decision is that this table must be published as is, someone will have to make it accessible. Whether or not the author or the Section 508 department would prevail in this case would be a supervisory decision – and staff time expended would be a major part of that decision. The author might reply that having these tables attached is essential to the learning, that the reader must have a ready comparison of statistics on each row between CS Only and All Disciplines. A Section 508 remediator might send this back to the author and ask her to separate these tables in Word, making them two simple tables.
This sure looks like a complex table, and it is – but only due to the author’s desire to attach two separate tables together.
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