<th>, Tables, Section 508

Hi:

Work for a Federal agency, We have to comply with what is known as section 508 of the Americans with Disability Act. We are having problems with tables passing accessibility tests. Here are the two standards:

§1194.22 (g)
Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.

§11924.22 (h)
Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers

When FCKEditor generates a table it starts with <table>, <tbody>, etc, but there is NO <th> generated for the first row of the table, it uses <td>. So, do we need to look at something else other than FCKeditor? Is there a way to do this programmatically?

We are not allowing our authors to access or modify the underlying HTML so this needs to be done some other way. We could use <td> with a scope statement but again that would require modifing the underlying HTML which we will not allow authors to do.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!

P.