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ACSS 2022 Annual Report | Advisory Committee for Social Science

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ACSS 2023 Annual Report | Advisory Committee for Social Science

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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	FSA Quality Assurance Toolkit \| Advisory Committee for Social Scienceacss.food.gov.uk/QAT?print=1	4
	ACSS 2022 Annual Report \| Advisory Committee for Social Scienceacss.food.gov.uk/ACSS%202022%20Annual%20Report	2
	ACSS 2023 Annual Report. \| Advisory Committee for Social Scienceacss.food.gov.uk/ACSS%202023%20Annual%20Report.	2
	ACSS 2023 Annual Report \| Advisory Committee for Social Scienceacss.food.gov.uk/ACSS%202023%20Annual%20Report	2

Add headers to tables

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