Accessibility Inspector for WCAG Evaluation

Table Rule Results

Screen shot of Table Rule Result View in Chrome Browser

Table Information

Property Description
Type Identifies how the table is being used:
  • Layout: The table has been identified as be used for layout purposes and there for should not using table header markup or have an accessible name. A manual check needs to be done that the reading order of content makes sense to screen reader users.
  • Data: The table is being used to render tabular data and should have a an accessible name and use table header markup.
  • Complex: The table is being used to render tabular data and is using row or column spans for the data cells, requiring more detailed definition of table header markup.
Rows Number of rows in a table.
Columns Number of columns in the table.
Spanned cells Number of cell that span more than one row or column.
Total cells Total number of header and data cells in the table.
Total header cells Total number of header cells in the table.