Tables used specifically for layout may not need a table summary. For example, if you use a table for layout, you probably would not assign a table summary to the table. However, you may have configured Accessibility reports to check for tables without table summaries and notify you when a table does not have a table summary.

In this scenario, while you want an Accessibility report to notify you when you have a table without a table summary, you do not want to be notified when you deliberately did not assign a table summary to a table because a table summary is not required. To address this issue, you can use the TableSummaryNotReq marker to exclude a table that deliberately does not have a table summary from validation when you generate Accessibility reports. For more information about Accessibility reports and configuring and generating Accessibility reports, see Accessibility Reports, Configuring Reports, and Generating Reports.

To exclude tables from Accessibility report checks, your Stationery and FrameMaker template must have the TableSummaryNotReq marker type configured. Your output format must also support this feature.

The following procedure provides an example of how to exclude tables without table summaries from Accessibility report checks in Adobe FrameMaker source documents using unstructured Adobe FrameMaker 7.2. Steps for excluding tables without table summaries from Accessibility report checks in Adobe FrameMaker may be different in other versions of Adobe FrameMaker.

NOTE TO REVIEWERS: These steps work. However, the product does not seem to work. Even when tables do not have alternate text, ePublisher does not seem to recognize this and generate an error.