# Talk:Geoffrey Boycott

Screen reader users can call up a list of tables on a page. These are out of the page's context, including the headings, so we need a way to describe them in this listing. Tables are labelled by their caption. A user can navigate directly to any table that takes their interest. So, I've added captions to any table without one and expanded the captions that were already there. I've also added scope attributes to the column headings, including those that span two or more columns. Understanding table structure is tricky when you cannot see the page. CrazyBuilder talk 09:20, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Listening to any of the tables with an inline reference in a col heading, using VoiceOver (the Mac screen reader) is a bit of a pain: every time the heading is announced (which is every time a cell in that column is encountered), so is "link 247" or similar. I found it both irritating and tiring. Is there a way to move the source reference out of the heading that would be acceptable to all concerned? I should add that I'm not a full-time screen reader user, so perhaps my tolerance of such irritations is not very good, but if I find it tiring, then I suspect anyone would find it so. Hoping for some good input. CrazyBuilder talk 15:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

@CrazyBuilder: Are you talking about the tables in "Career performance" section of "Test matches" and "One-Day Internationals", if so may be the ref could be moved in to the title. As shown below.

Keith D (talk) 00:06, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that's the place. That looks like an excellent idea. Cannot see any issues there. (I still wonder how a screen reader user knows what "link 247" means, but that is a whole other question.) BTW, that "title" is a "caption"—forgive my nit-picking—communication is generally better when we use the correct terms for stuff—the burden of my neurodivergent brain, sorry, lol. I'll check with VO and move the refs today if all is well. CrazyBuilder talk 10:14, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Refs moved. All good. Many thanks Keith, CrazyBuilder talk 10:32, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are outlined below:

There is uncited text in the article, including a paragraph that has been tagged with a "citation needed" template since 2017.
At over 10,000 words long, this might be an indication that the article is too detailed. WP:TOOBIG recommends that articles over 9,000 words be spun out. Can a subject matter expert go through the prose and remove/summarise any text, or move information to other articles?
Is anyone willing to address the above concerns, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 00:22, 28 October 2024 (UTC)


### Geoffrey Boycott