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Dylan Carter
4,780 Points"scope" and <thead>/<tbody>...
so the point of scope seems that it is a more enternal thing to let search engines and such know what is the topic of the content and what is the subinformation of each topic, but if we are putting a thead and tbody, doesnt that accomplish the same thing as far as interally labeling what the topic of the col/row is??
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Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsThese are extremely important for screen readers. If you are unfamiliar with them, they are assisted devices for people who are blind. The devices reads the content to the user, and in the case of tables, the Scope attribute allows them to more easily understand the relation of the data in the column to that specific column as well as the other columns.
Here is more on the topic: http://webaim.org/techniques/tables/data#headers
Andre Kucharzyk
4,479 PointsAndre Kucharzyk
4,479 PointsBy "these" do you mean both thead and scope, or just scope?
Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsLuke Pettway
16,593 PointsI was referring to both the scope attribute and thead element. It really comes down to the data that you are using within a table, sometimes it can be more complex and thus becomes more beneficial to screen reader users to have that extra level of clarity.