I have posted a particular query Charles. The issue is not about developing websites it is about trying to ensure that material tht is posted to a parish council wesite is accessible and that needs to take account of WCAG 2.1 or the parish council could be breaking the law.


I have followed the guidance given by Word 2016 and the result is that a table is classed as being used for layout. Oh and by the way most people that use Office do not work in offices.

Where do the majority of these people work Geoff? I would recommend they avoid the pool and other wet areas when using Office.

The result you get when you paste into a WYSIWYG editor will vary depending on which software powers the website AND which WYSIWYG editor plug-in you are using. Neither of these are under the control of MS Word. Do you have options to try other WYSIWYG editor plugins to see what results you get pasting?

The only way to ensure you have control over the html code such that it aligns with the particular WYSIWYG editor you are using is to convert the Word content into a HTML format and perhaps tinker with the code before importing it in 'code view'. Word's usual HTML content is riddled with word-specific tags which enable Word to reopen the file and lay it out according to Word's rules - unfortunately this produces very ugly code for direct html edits in websites. That is why Charles recommended using a HTML editor to create your HTML - it cuts out an extra authoring step.

If you REALLY want to start in Word, it is possible to create and run a macro to produce cleaned WCAG-compliant html for pasting into a code view of your site editing page. Others have provided code you could use as a starting point.
Convert table to html tags without using saveas option in word vba
https://www.joskingston.org/Htmltag/htmltaguser.doc

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

The issue is not dependent on the transfer of a document into a WSWYG editor it is that Word does not include the option to produce a table that has the reccomended coding to enable a person who has to live with visual and other problems. In short Word does not comply with WCAG 2.1


What is needed is some code that identifes a table as containg data. I can request that my parish clerks who use Word to provide minutes and agendas for government meetings add a top line to their Word produced tables. I could for example copy and paste to Notepad++ and then add the code example:
<table>
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Event</th>
<th>Venue</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12 February</td>
<td>Waltz with Strauss</td>
<td>Main Hall</td>
</tr>
</table>

At present parish clerks that I deal with do not even create a heading row for their tables.
Now I can do that but it is time consuming and I would need to charge for my time.

Alterntively, I could request that clerks add a header row for all tables