RE: APG grid pattern text ready for review

Matt,

Besides from commenting in [2], I miss two very central points in the grid pattern text:


? Distinguishing between layout and data grid in code by explicit attribute declaration.
Omitting header cells is not distinctive enough.
What should screen readers use as information to distinguish between the cases? Should they guess?

? One-column layout grids: LISTS.
They are frequent.
Shouldn't there be a explicit indication for this a screen reader can use NOT to say "Grid" but "List" instead?

Best Regards
Stefan



From: Matt King [mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com]
Sent: Montag, 18. Juli 2016 03:07
To: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: APG grid pattern text ready for review

The documentation (not yet the code examples) for the ARIA 1.1 grid design pattern is ready for review[1].

Please provide feedback and comments in ARIA practices issue #29:
https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/29

For reference, this new grid design pattern section replaces ARIA 1.0 design pattern sections for both "Grid" [3] and "Actionable, Sortable Column Header in a Grid" [4].

Matt King

References:

[1] ARIA 1.1 Grid Pattern
http://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#grid

[2] APG 1.1 Issue #29 for grid pattern feedback:
https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/29

[3] ARIA 1.0 design pattern text for Grid:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20160317/#grid

[4] ARIA 1.0 design pattern text for Actionable, Sortable Column Header in a Grid:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20160317/#sortablegrid