WCAG 1.3.1 · Level A
Table Fake Caption
- What is broken
- A spanning cell is being used as a title instead of a real caption.
- Who it affects
- Screen reader users hear the cell values with no idea which row or column they belong to.
- How to fix it
- Use a <caption> element as the table's first child.
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