This page contains material from a presentation at the WAI Best Practices Exchange Training in Madrid, Spain in February 2004.

Making Images, Tables, and On-line Forms Accessible

Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C WAI

Last updated: 12 October 2004

WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints Covered

• 1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element…
• 12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls
• 10.2 … for all form controls with implicitly associated labels, ensure that the label is properly positioned
• 5.1 For data tables, identify row and column headers
• 5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells
• 5.3 Do not use tables for layout unless the table makes sense when linearized
• 5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structural markup for the purpose of visual formatting