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The Table Editor

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The Table Editor

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- [Instructor] Tables typically require some massaging for full compliance. Some important things to remember about tables is that every table needs to have a header row. It can be a row header or a column header, but regardless it needs a header row to be compliant. Additionally, when cells are merged in a table, the appropriate span attribute needs to be applied to avoid the common regularity error that appears when checking your file. Tables are covered under WCAG success criteria 1.4.5 and 1.3.1. You'll also find them in the PDF techniques for WCAG in item number six. And in the PDF/UA specification, you'll find the description for tables in checkpoints nine and 15. The first thing I'm going to do just as a general check is in the accessibility tool, I'm going to go ahead and run my accessibility check. I'm just going to leave the document category chosen, and I'm going to choose start checking. And if you go under…

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