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Decision: Status Table Columns Use Icon-Only Presentation
Date: 2026-04-22 Status: active
Context
Dense hardware tables frequently repeat the same status values.
Showing a textual status header and textual badges in every row wastes horizontal space and reduces scan speed, especially in sensor subtables.
The viewer still needs to keep status meaning explicit and avoid relying on color alone.
Decision
Table columns named status render as compact icon-only columns.
This includes:
- an empty visible header cell for the
statuscolumn - a minimal-width table column sized for the pictogram
- a glyph plus color to distinguish state
- accessible labeling that preserves the raw status value without showing repeated text in the cell
Object sections may continue to show status as a regular field value.
Consequences
- Table layouts gain more room for source fields such as
name,model, andlocation. - Status meaning remains available to assistive technologies even when the visible cell is icon-only.
- Future table UI work should keep
statuscompact instead of reintroducing wide text badges by default.