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MDMueller
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@Paulie_D I know what you mean, I was looking at it twice as well until I realized that from a semantic / accessibility point of view, there is no reason at all to use a table in this case.

There isn’t the slightest connection between rows and columns. Software like screen readers would unsuccessfully try to find a caption or table headings. In best case the screen reader assumes it’s just a bad table-layout and ignores the semantics. In the other cases (which is quite likely), wrong information is read out. So from an accessibility point of view, using a table is not arguable – it simply doesn’t fit here…