Chapter 24 Accessibility 1231 the tables (Adult web hosting) with screen-reader
Chapter 24 Accessibility 1231 the tables with screen-reader requirements in mind. For example, the CAST eReader, a screen reader developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (www.cast.org), starts at the top-left-hand cell and reads columns from left to right, top to bottom. This technique of reading data from a table is referred to as linearized. Figure 24.14 creates a simple table listing the costs of various fruits; later, we provide this table to the CAST eReader to demonstrate its linear reading of the table. The CAST eReader reads the table in Fig. 24.14 as follows: Price of Fruit Fruit Price Apple $0.25 Orange $0.50 Banana $1.00 Pineapple $2.00 This reading does not present the content of the table adequately: The reading neither specifies caption and header information nor links data contained in cells to the column headers that describe them. WCAG 1.0 recommends using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) instead of tables, unless a table s content linearizes in an understandable manner. 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 16 17 18 19 20Price of Fruit
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| Fruit | Price |
| Apple | $0.25 |