Second Homes - Cotswold District Council

Devolution Update - Cotswold District Council

Local land charges - Cotswold District Council

Street naming and numbering - Cotswold District Council

Where your Council Tax goes - Cotswold District Council

Section 106 monitoring fees - Cotswold District Council

Tables which contain information should have clear headers defined.  

In this example, the top row of the table is a header:

| Surname        | City          |
| -------------- | ------------- |
| Washington     | London        |
| Phoenix        | Arizona       |
| Austin         | Travis        |

Notice how without the header here, it would be almost impossible to understand 
what the individual values mean ("Washington" could be a city or a surname). 

It is not enough to just make the headers look differently, as accessible technologies will not 
recognize this (for example, a screen reader cannot 'see' different colors or fonts). 
Table headings must be defined using the `<th>` tag. 

This example shows how a table should use a `<th>` to mark cells as headings. Note the 
use of the `col` attribute, to specify these headings are for the _column_:

```html
<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">First name</th>
    <th scope="col">City</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Washington</td>
    <td>London</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Phoenix</td>
    <td>Arizona</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Austin</td>
    <td>Travis</td>
  </tr>
</table>
```

Tables which are used purely for layout do not need to do this. However, 
[the use of tables for layout is strongly discouraged](https://www.lifewire.com/dont-use-tables-for-layout-3468941).
This check will ignore tables that it believes are purposely used for layout.

Learn more about [accessible table design (W3C)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/one-header/).

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July 2025

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Cotswold District Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Second Homes - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/council-tax-and-benefits/second-homes/	1
	Devolution Update - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/news-items/devolution-update/	1
	Local land charges - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/planning-and-building/local-land-charges/	1
	Street naming and numbering - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/planning-and-building/street-naming-and-numbering/	1
	Where your Council Tax goes - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/council-tax-and-benefits/pay-council-tax/where-your-council-tax-goes/	1
	Section 106 monitoring fees - Cotswold District Councilwww.cotswold.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policy/section-106-monitoring-fees/	1

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