25.4.1 Following WAI guidelines for tables

You can assign WAI attributes to tables, and within tables to rows, columns, and header cells. Mif2Go supports WAI guidelines for the following kinds of table markup:

• Providing summary information (WAI guidelines 5.1 and 5.2).

• Identifying row and column information (WAI guidelines 5.5 and 5.6).

Mif2Go provides settings for the following attributes:

abbr	Abbreviation for the contents of a cell.
axis	Conceptual category of cell content, provided for queries.
headers	References to header-cell IDs.
id	ID (name) of a header cell.
scope	Rows or columns covered by a header cell.
summary	Description of a table’s purpose and structure.
title	Brief description of table.

Mif2Go automatically generates markup for the following (non-WAI) attributes, based on row and column straddling in your FrameMaker tables:

colspan	Number of columns spanned (straddled) by a cell.
rowspan	Number of rows spanned (straddled) by a cell.

For information about WAI table guidelines, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#data-tables

For information about using WAI table attributes, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html#h-11.4

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