Kilotest: Diagnoses of table headers missing violation by HTML element 45 on Portland OR Councilor Clark bulletin 2026-05-01 page

Basics

About the Portland OR Councilor Clark bulletin 2026-05-01 page

• URL: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORPORTLAND_ENT/bulletins/41547e4
• Tested 26 days ago by job 9bg on 2026-05-06 at 19:11

About HTML element 45

• Tag name: TABLE
• Text: Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. … The City of Portland ensures meaningful access and reasonably provides: translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services. To request these services, call 311 for Relay Service or TTY: 711.
• Start tag: <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" class="gd_tbl_wrap">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/main[1]/article[1]/div[2]/div[2]/table[1]
• Bounding box: x = 610, y = 396, width = 700, height = 15485

About the table headers missing issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on relationships in a table
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the table headers missing issue for HTML element 45 of the Portland OR Councilor Clark bulletin 2026-05-01 page.

1. <p>To fix:</p> <ul><li>If this table contains data that is meaningfully organized by row and column, edit the table's properties and specify whether headers have been placed in the first row, column or both. This lets screen reader users hear the headers repeated while navigating the content.</li> <li>If this table does not contain rows and columns of data, but is instead being used for visual layout, remove it. Tables overflow the page rather than reflowing on mobile devices, and should only be used when the horizontal relationships are necessary to understand the content.</li></ul>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: tableNoHeaderCells

2. Table has no headers identified

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: table_headers_exists