help requested - tables in XSL and accessibility

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Hello,

I work for a public transport company. We are totally reworking our travel planner in order to improve user-friendliness and accessibility. The new interface/result page also has to be usable by the blind. We will use an XML file transformed through XSLT to achieve our results page.

At this point however, I got problems;

I reworked the XSL stylesheet (even though I'm new to it) so the data would make sense when reading horizontally and to make the page take up less width, also without nested tables. However, of course it got 'longer', much to the dismay of our IT department (no I'm not in it, webmaster is marketing department in my comp.).

So now I'm planning on relying on table headers to identify the cells with the corresponding table headers. Since I already was on I tight schedule and am still unfamiliar with making tables accessible this way, I could really appreciate some help, be it in the actual (re)writing of the code, or by means of suggestions.

Next week's the last week I will be able to work on it and if I don't finish it by then, I'll be in trouble (plus the results page will *still* be unaccessible by the blind, one of our main goals!).

Below the problematic code (sorry, couldn't find a way to attach the file). Any support is welcome!

Darkelve

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#vroeger
rit vroeger
rit vroeger

http://localhost/proto1/getpdf.asp?lijn=&richt=


#gevraagd
aanbevolen reisweg
aanbevolen reisweg

http://localhost/proto1/getpdf.asp?lijn=&richt=


#later
rit later
rit later

http://localhost/proto1/getpdf.asp?lijn=&richt=