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must linearize.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'unconfirmed'.
This test is not required for conformance to the current WCAG2. It is provided for discussion and informational purposes only.
There are no techniques related to this test.
The following tests must be run before running this test. If any of the prerequisite tests fail then this test is invalid and should not be run.
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in the content.table
cells in order starting at the top left corner.table
cells make sense when viewed one at a time in order.table
s are expected to make sense when read one cell at a time.table
so it makes sense when read one cell at a time.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #133 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0"><tr><td>Elephants are big animals but they have small tails.
Last time I was at the zoo one of the elephants came over to me and started wagging his tail.</td>
<td>Large python snakes, if they are really hungry, can eat a small goat. If you keep small goats around the house you should ensure that no python snakes can get in.</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #133 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1"><tr><th> </th><th>cats</th><th>dogs</th></tr>
<tr><th>big</th><td>12</td><td>23</td></tr>
<tr><th>small</th><td>5</td><td>14</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>