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These are examples of tables read aloud by screen readers. They may be useful as concrete examples to show to the community, when the community has difficulty in understanding how an accessible table benefits a screen reader user. Table using SCOPE attributes [dead link ] (NVDA using the Crystal voice from NaturalSoft)
It is used to improve rare cases where a table has an incorrect structure, and consensus cannot be reached to change the whole structure of the table. This example solves accessibility issues for screen readers only, and people with different or multiple disabilities may have trouble with this table. Since this table has no semantic structure ...
Note: This example is not accessible, and should be avoided as much as possible. For example, nested tables (tables inside tables) should be separated into distinct tables when possible. Here is a more advanced example, showing some more options available for making up tables.
Each table is labelled by its caption or by the column headers if a caption is not present, so the captions do help a screen reader user to navigate the tables that way. However the TOC method probably works with more screen readers; there is no keystroke to make a list of tables in NVDA, for example. It would theoretically be best to allow for ...
Create correctly structured tables. Wrap non-English words or phrases in {{ lang }} or {{ transliteration }} . Ask any accessibility-related questions at WikiProject Accessibility's talk page .
A table can be useful even if none of the cells have content. For example, the background colors of cells can be changed with cell parameters, making the table into a diagram, like meta:Template talk:Square 8x8 pentomino example. An "image" in the form of a table is much more convenient to edit than an uploaded image.
For lists running across the page, and in single rows in infoboxes and other tables, the templates {} and {} (for "horizontal list") are available to improve accessibility and semantic meaningfulness. This feature makes use of the correct HTML markup for each list item, rather than including bullet characters which, for example, are read out (e ...
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial#Comparing tables with and without scope=col and scope=row. Please ignore the heated tone of some of the discussion. I apologize for my part in the heated tone. Getting to your questions. I don't see the need for designating row headers in the 2 column table examples you gave.