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Add Captions and Summaries to Tables .....................

2 Immediately after the

opening <table> tag, type

<caption>?</caption>,

replacing? with an

appropriate caption or

title for your table.

1 In your editor, open an HTML

page that includes a table.

Add Captions and Summaries to Tables

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o ensure accessibility for your site, you should never use tables to lay out your page. However,

you can and should use tables for tabular data. You can also use the <caption> tag to display

a caption or title immediately above the table. Screen readers for the blind linearize the table,

meaning they read it top to bottom. A summary, inserted into the opening

users with an overview of the table’s structure and its contents to help them make sense of what

they hear.

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