WCAG 1.3.1 · Level A
Td Has Header
- What is broken
- A large data table has no headers, so its values are announced as a stream of numbers with no context.
- Who it affects
- Screen reader users hear the cell values with no idea which row or column they belong to.
- How to fix it
- Give the table proper <th> headers for each row and column.
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