Digital books may use tables for layout purposes. These presentation tables must be implemented correctly to ensure content remains comprehensible when read linearly by assistive technologies.

Objectives

• Allow users of assistive technologies to navigate table content easily.
• Improve content accessibility for users with disabilities.

Implementation

• Ensure that cell content remains understandable when linearized. Assistive technologies read and announce table cells (and) and rows () sequentially, so the logical reading order must be preserved.

Control

• Inspect the HTML source code of the EPUB to verify that the linear reading order of layout tables is logical.