[Bug 10026] New: Scope attribute for TD

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10026

           Summary: Scope attribute for TD
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#attribute
                    s-common-to-td-and-th-elements
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: h5@theshangs.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


There seems to be no scope attribute for the TD cell in HTML5 but your own
website gives an example using it:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H63.html. I strongly believer the scope=row
(at least) should be allowed otherwise one must additionally provide a class
for the TH element to override the browser styling defaults. The row scope may
be data in addition to a header so I feel it is relevant to have scope for a TD
cell.
Also, I'm assuming from
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#attributes-common-to-td-and-th-elements
that headers attribute is still supported although I have read numerous
accounts where this will be dropped from HTML 5, which would be a mistake
considering the coding effort for headers which would have to be "undone". I
think backward compatibility here is a must.
Respectfully,
-Cynthia Shang

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Received on Monday, 28 June 2010 20:38:04 UTC