Create accessible complex tables in HTML5 forms create-accessible-complex-tables-in-html-forms

The default implementation of tables in HTML5 Forms uses HTML DIV elements to render a table. Rendering involves using ARIA roles to satisfy the accessibility requirements.

To avoid accessibility issues with screen-readers which do not fully support the ARIA-roles used with data-tables, HTML5 Forms provides an alternate rendition for the tables. These tables are based on the new table format introduced in Designer which also supports:

To use the new format in HTML5 Forms, mark the table as complex. To mark the table as complex, add extras tag in the XML source of table subform as follows:

</extras>
 <text name="complexTable">1</text>
 </extras>

The tables which are marked as complexTable follow the native HTML rendition, and provide better accessibility support for certain screen readers. To create a row span, select consecutive cells of a table in the same column, right-click the selection, and then click Merge Cells.

To mark a row as row header, select all cells in the row, right-click the selection, and then click Mark Header.

To mark a cell as column header, select any cell in the column, right-click the selection, and then click Mark Header.

Limitations in new AccessibleTable format: