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 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 Microsoft Word source documents using Microsoft Word 2003. Steps for excluding tables without table summaries from Accessibility report checks in Microsoft Word may be different in other versions of Microsoft Word.