Template:Award category

Award name

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This is a wrapper that goes around an award category name in layout tables in articles such as 87th Academy Awards. Your use of this template will help make awards lists which use layout tables be accessible to blind visitors to Wikipedia.

Usage

Typical usage would be:

• {{Award category|#eedd82|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]}}

which produces:

Best Picture

Place the template as the first line within the table cell containing the list of nominations that the award applies to. Do not place this template on a separate table row, as it will no longer be accessible to blind Wikipedians.

Example

In an article, this could be implemented as follows:

Best Picture American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales and Jeremy Dawson The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster

Best Director Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Richard Linklater – Boyhood Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Step-by-step to convert existing awards tables to this template

Here are the steps to convert an existing non-accessible awards table to an accessible version. You can recognize such tables by the awards names being in separate table rows from the nominees lists:

Example of non-accessible table which does not use the {{Award category}} template

Best Picture	Best Director
... (nominees/award for 1st category)	... (nominees/award for 2nd category)

Here is how to replace that table with table with an accessible table using the {{Award category}} template:

1. Edit the Awards section of the page
   Sample code at this point, before any editing:
   |-
|+ There may or may not be a line that captions the table
! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" |
... (nominees/award for 1st category)
| style="vertical-align:top;" |
... (nominees/award for 2nd category)
   
2. If there is a line near the start of the table that begins with |+, remove that line.
3. Move the width control that splits the table into two columns:
   1. Cut ; width:50% from both styles
   2. Paste after style="vertical-align:top;"
   3. Remove the semicolons from after style="vertical-align:top;"
   4. Change the colon after width to an equal sign
   5. Add double-quotes around 50%
4. Review edits
   How sample code looks now:
   |-
! style="background:#EEDD82" | [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
! style="background:#EEDD82" | [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
... (nominees/award for 1st category)
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
... (nominees/award for 2nd category)
   
5. Replace the style lead-in with the template
   1. Replace ! style="background:#EEDD82" | including the trailing space
      with {{Award category|#EEDD82| and no trailing space, so that the | is right up against the title or title link
      everywhere it occurs in the table code. If you use a text editor to do a global change, be sure to catch any variations on this.
   2. On every line you added the {{Award category}} template to, be sure to add the trailing }} after the title or title link.
6. Review edits:
   How sample code looks now:
   |-
{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]}}
{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]}}
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
... (nominees/award for 1st category)
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
... (nominees/award for 2nd category)
   
7. Distribute each awards category template code to its respective list
   1. Move each line containing award category template code, for example,
      {{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]}}
      into the cell with the nominations list it applies to, immediately after the valign line
   2. Delete the newly empty table rows that used to contain the category names, so that there aren't two lines with |- one after the other.
8. Review edits:
   How sample code looks now:
   |-
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]}}
... (nominees/award for 1st category)
| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" |
{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]}}
... (nominees/award for 2nd category)
   
9. Preview your work and correct any code errors
10. When the table looks consistent and all awards are in the same cell as their nominees, you're done and you can publish.

The documentation on top is transcluded from Template:Award category/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
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