This is just so I remember to do this: for accessibility reasons (screen reader compatibility), the first row in a table typically should have header="yes" as an attribute. This tells the reader that the items in the first row are column headers that describe what is in each column.
The only thing I'm unsure of is whether we also do this for cases where we have a tabular inside a figure. Technically this is not allowed but you'll recall there was a lengthy discussion once with @davidfarmer about how most of our "tables" are not true tables according to the Chicago style. I think David convinced us, but not Rob, since it's still the case that tabular isn't allowed anywhere other than in a table.
This is just so I remember to do this: for accessibility reasons (screen reader compatibility), the first row in a table typically should have
header="yes"as an attribute. This tells the reader that the items in the first row are column headers that describe what is in each column.The only thing I'm unsure of is whether we also do this for cases where we have a
tabularinside afigure. Technically this is not allowed but you'll recall there was a lengthy discussion once with @davidfarmer about how most of our "tables" are not true tables according to the Chicago style. I think David convinced us, but not Rob, since it's still the case thattabularisn't allowed anywhere other than in atable.