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Re:Flexible data tables with CSS Grid by Macha on Saturday May 18, 2019 @01:34PM (#19948611)
Would setting the appropriate aria roles help here?
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Re:Flexible data tables with CSS Grid by gedy on Saturday May 18, 2019 @01:59PM (#19948755)
Yes I believe so, there are ARIA roles for tabular data:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

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Re:Flexible data tables with CSS Grid by robin_reala on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:16PM (#19949507)
That relies on assistive tech supporting them. I’m not saying they don’t, but historically it’s been lacking. Great if they do, but testing would absolutely be needed.
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