Bob,
As long as you have an audio-only disclaimer just before stating "The
following object does not contain tabular data". Otherwise screen
readers (supposedly) and standardist developers browsing your site in
view-source mode (as one does) will get halfway through the content of
your first <td> and suddenly come to the horrifying realisation "What's
going on?! This isn't cross-referencing data!" and will lose all sense
of context, suffer psychotic episodes, and never visit your site again.
If you can live with that, go ahead. Just remove that beautiful-looking
W3 tick logo from the bottom of your pages.
[/joke]
It is all semantics, and will be seen by most designers as fundamentally
incorrect and misleading. However your page will still be valid and
accessible, and it's very hard to conceive of a realistic user persona
whose experience would suffer from this.
There is a lot of mythology about screen-readers being utterly thrown by
tables, but at the end of the day tables operate as you'd expect, in a
linear fashion (as they are written in the code) - which is just how
your layout would be written anyway. The name in and of itself of the
tags is the only real contention here.
So practically, you wouldn't be inconveniencing your users, but in
theory you're wrong wrong wrong. Be warned.
Regards,
Barney
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