Abbreviations and acronyms may be expanded. Titles can provide information about the purpose of horizontal rules that may be obvious visually but not auditorally. Priority 2 3. Provide abbreviations for lengthy row and column labels. Without abbreviations, a user who is using an auditory browser to navigate a table may hear the lengthy labels each time a cell is entered.
Abbreviations decrease reading time and repetition.
Priority 2 4. Group controls, selections, and labels into semantic units. Groupings provide meta-information about relationships between controls that are useful for all users . Priority 2 5. For complex tables, provide summaries, associate cells with row and column headers, and group cells into categories.