Editing MS Word Accessibility Best Practices (section)

== Tables ==

* All tables need headers. 
** In the sample documents the cells that should be header cells are not marked as such, they are marked as ordinary table cells. 
** ''Select the table'' > ''select cells from the row(s) that contain the headers''
** '''(Table Tools)''' > '''Layout''' > '''Repeat Header Rows'''
* Tables with inconsistent cell counts. 
** All rows in a given table should have the same number of cells. If for some reason one row has fewer cells, at least some of those cells should be assigned a "colspan" that indicates that the cell spans multiple columns in other rows.
** This looks like it's an issue with the Export to PDF function within Word not generating a table that accurately reflects the table as it is set up in Word.
** For an example, `13b-8630 AP_and_college_admissions_for CB Research Note_2013REVKB_EJS.doc`, page 31.
** There are cells in the left column that span multiple rows. There are also cells in the first row that span multiple columns.
** If the table is selected in Word and View Gridlines is checked, the grid in Word accurately takes all this into account.
** However, after exporting the document as a PDF, extra cells are added, and there are some gaps where cells are missing. 
** It looks like this will need to be cleaned up in Acrobat using the Touch-Up Reading Order function.