Re: aria-rowspan, aria-colspan, aria-colindex,aria-colcount, aria-rowindex, aria-colcount, figure (Action 2102)

So, that will mean that you have to find the row and column spans in two places.

As for aria-colcount, aria-rowcount, aria-colindex, and aria-rowindex you had give me the groupPosition() interface for those. You had said they were implemented. 

Rich

> On Aug 8, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Alexander Surkov <asurkov@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Joanie and Rich.
> 
> Here's Jamie's email pointing to a problem if colspan/rowspan are
> exposed via AccessibleTable interface [1].
> 
> The difference between HTML and ARIA attributes is that ARIA can be
> used to create tables with gaps, while HTML cannot. AccessibleTable is
> not suitable to expose such tables.
> 
> [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html
> 
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
>> Hey Alex.
>> 
>> Could you not use the TableCell interface for this?
>> *
>> https://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/AtkTableCell.html#atk-table-cell-get-column-span
>> *
>> https://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/AtkTableCell.html#atk-table-cell-get-row-span
>> 
>> --joanie
>> 
>> On 08/08/2016 03:10 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> Iirc there's a problem to make the accessible table interface to
>>> reflect aria- values as they can be used to create not-yet-loaded
>>> grids, see Jamie's concern [1]. I think that's why we expose them as
>>> object attributes and group position in IA2.
>>> 
>>> Joanie, what is your thinking on this issue, since ATK and IA2
>>> shouldn't be different on this?
>>> 
>>> Note, the spec says to map aria-rowspan and aria-colspan into IA2
>>> table interface, they should be mapped into object attributes instead.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Alex.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2015-June/001913.html
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Alex,
>>>> 
>>>> Please take a look. Joanie reviewed ATK/ATSPI
>>>> 
>>>> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/action2102/core-aam/core-aam.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Joseph,
>>>> 
>>>> Alex is updating the IA2 spec. I am waiting on aria-errormessage and
>>>> aria-details mappings. Also, Cynthia is going on vacation. I fixed her
>>>> aria-rowspan and aria-colspan mappings but I will have to wait until she
>>>> returns to get the rest for action 2102. I also still need to get the Mac
>>>> mappings. We might want to pull in the changes after Alex weighs in on the
>>>> this branch. there are A LOT. … or we can wait.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rich
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>

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